Monday, May 17, 2010

How Many Points In A Chow Mein



I reread the manuscript, and realize that almost all the characters come in pairs, while in Around them, my characters were alone. These latter characters are also, after all, can it be otherwise only the face of death? But what intrigues me is to realize that to write on September 11, I went through the relationships of the characters with those who remain.

Thus, Ginny, alone in the staircase, crossed without encountering Leah, and Leah, in turn, is transformed by the determination Ginny gives him the courage she refuses. Phil is in the collection because his brother, seeks not to abandon it in the rubble. Eileen, facing his own death, sees no other option but to contact her loved ones, and failing to join her children and her husband, she calls her father. Do not think that my characters have their relationships changed by the specter of death. This is not what it is.

In fact, I do not know what it is. Maybe it is just another evolution of my writing. Perhaps it is only the subject that calls it. Maybe he would have been too heavy, too daunting, having only about twenty people, completely alone at the time of dying or suffering.

I know this, for cons: I write maybe not so much the story of 11 September that the story of characters, the story of Danny and his brother, the story of Melanie forced to explain to her son that his dad will not return, the story of Leah who wants to die and survive. Not so much history, as the characters.

Poor certainty.

0 comments:

Post a Comment