Writing a novel #2
Writing and rewriting ~ that’s what writing a novel is all about. Yesterday, I rewrote two chapters and worked on a new one. When I read something, be it short or long, I always start at the end or toward the end ~ call me crazy but that’s the way I’ve always been. I want to know how the story ends and even with a magazine, I start at the back. In doing so with Fireflies I’m having quite an emotional time as Fireflies takes the reader to unimaginable emotional heights. (It’s taking the author there too.)
I thought that perhaps, you might want to know where my two main character’s names come from because they are not just plucked out of the “sky so blue.” I’ll tell you about my heroine today, Audrey, in the following excertp.
Audrey smiled broadly just thinking about her father who had passed away a few years earlier. He was really the favorite man in Audrey’s life and she always knew it. He had named Audrey after his hero, Audie Murphy, the most decorated American Army soldier of World War II who was now buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Murphy had become a movie star and it was a father – daughter ritual every Friday night to go to the Met Theater (Iowa Falls, Iowa) for the weekly cowboy movie; many of them staring Audie Murphy, the baby faced hero from Kingston, Texas. Audrey’s father often called her Audie with a sense of pride in his voice. She almost felt his presence in the car with her today.
More to follow.
