"The personal is political" please make it personal, Fiona. I'm afraid the two characters you are writing about just don't feel like real people to me.
Maybe don't worry about rising up bestseller lists or disrupting the "manstream"/academia just now.
As your reader, I would love to read about your experiences, your thoughts, your feelings, no characters or abstractions, just you talking to us simply from the heart. There's nothing braver or more powerful than that.
"The personal is political" please make it personal, Fiona. I'm afraid the two characters you are writing about just don't feel like real people to me.
Maybe don't worry about rising up bestseller lists or disrupting the "manstream"/academia just now.
As your reader, I would love to read about your experiences, your thoughts, your feelings, no characters or abstractions, just you talking to us simply from the heart. There's nothing braver or more powerful than that.