Wednesday, May 03, 2006

It will take a while to tell Parker's story. I am cheating a little bit by allowing Stillwater's character to create kind of a first-person omniscient vibration. It's very difficult for me to switch from one character narrating in first person to another. I've seen that method work in one book that I loved in junior high--I can't remember the name of the book (was a pig one of the characters?) and I can't duplicate the feat. Stillwater is going to have to tell Parker's story, but first, I gotta know Parker's story. I thought I knew it, but, well, you know, things change.

I am, once again, pumped up on caffeine, so I may have a good thing going tonight as I try to tell her story. I've discovered, strangely, that I am at my most creative when writing Stillwater while listening to Maroon 5 on my jukebox. Don't ask, I don't know. I'll try the same playlist for Parker, but I may have to switch to something else if Adam Levine fails me. Taking all alternate suggestions...

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