Writing a novel #3
Enjoy the jar of fireflies ~ I do. Now that you know about how and why I selected Audrey’s name its only fair that I tell you about my Stephen Grant. I choose to use the name Stephen Grant as my main character because I thought I’d been looking for him for over 45 years. It was a random search and one that holds no real logic or direction. One that follows no reality but is based rather in that state of being we call a dream.
It was a dream, an adolescent dream of a very young teenage girl that drew me to his name. I remember sitting up in bed one night and the name Stephen Grant came leaping forth from my head just as sure as sugar plums had danced there when I was even younger.
I’ve never met a man by the name of Stephen Grant, but I always knew that he was out there, out there somewhere. He’s been a part of my life just as sure as the Stephen Grant in Fireflies has become a part of who I am.
Yes, the Stephen Grant of my fantasies does have a face to me, but the one that holds me in his arms has a name, Tim, my husband of 42 years.
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