Sunday morning and pancakes from The Cottage of Blog
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Good morning from the Cottage of Blog where the coffee's on and we're having walnut pancakes with syrup. Yum.
Last night I managed to watch a half hour of devastated, lost people from New Orleans. I've listened to how much our government could have done and somehow missed the mark, from the boxes of supplies to the heliocopters not sent out on the rescue missions. Now, the big question is why? What got screwed up and how in the world could anyone forget about something as big as a heliocopters? Paperwork not withstanding.
Think of the lost people who could have been saved-the pets left to drown in houses because there wasn't room enough for owners to take them. It breaks your heart.
And now the clean-up and the realization that many, many have no home to go back to. Everything that meant anything from their entire lives wiped out.
It reminds me of Sophie's Choice. I'm sure there were more than one family who had to choose which one of their sons or daughters they could save/or which pet. I have four collies. And, although animals would never come before a person, still--which one of my babies would come? Which would I leave behind to die? Oh my God.
I hope I NEVER have to face such a choice with loved ones either human or animal.
One headline on America Online. "President rallies nation" yeah. Well, I have news for you Mr. Pres. The nation is already rallying.
There isn't a site or organization that doesn't have a relief fund that can't be contributed to. It's not the Pres who's doing it. It's the nation-its people-its energy to laugh disaster in the face and conquer it. Think 9/11 now Katrina. We've had two disasters of cataclismic proportions withing 5 years. I can hear my inner mind saying "It can't be happening to us." Well, it can. It has.
Today, I'm perfecting (?) my character list for my new WIP. As it will be a category I'm keeping major characters to three, the rest secondary and minor characters. Although I do have a few secondary characters who might have a thing or two to say about that.
I've worked on premise, themes, log lines--brief character analysis with goals, motivation, conflict, character growth and personal mottos for the three majors. I'm trying to keep it to a minimum of ten although --
My setting is beginning to take shape. A university with a professor dorm that has suites and a dining room. Sort of like a renovated mansion turned bed and breakfast. That will put my H/H in close proximity. We will have a local watering hole (pizza and beer with peanut shells on the floor) The town will be a university town. Some characters will have dual roles as students/workers in town and professors.
Personally, I love college towns. Especially Itaca around Cornell University and Evanston that supports Northwestern University and University of Chicago and its campus. Maybe my town will combine some features of each.
My backstory is worked out. I may not include that in the synopsis proper, but will write a separate account--maybe as a journal from the characters POV.
I'm going to start pinpointing my blocks today. What's happening where and expand from there.
Happy reading, writing and revising from The Cottage of Blog
Pat
Good morning from the Cottage of Blog where the coffee's on and we're having walnut pancakes with syrup. Yum.
Last night I managed to watch a half hour of devastated, lost people from New Orleans. I've listened to how much our government could have done and somehow missed the mark, from the boxes of supplies to the heliocopters not sent out on the rescue missions. Now, the big question is why? What got screwed up and how in the world could anyone forget about something as big as a heliocopters? Paperwork not withstanding.
Think of the lost people who could have been saved-the pets left to drown in houses because there wasn't room enough for owners to take them. It breaks your heart.
And now the clean-up and the realization that many, many have no home to go back to. Everything that meant anything from their entire lives wiped out.
It reminds me of Sophie's Choice. I'm sure there were more than one family who had to choose which one of their sons or daughters they could save/or which pet. I have four collies. And, although animals would never come before a person, still--which one of my babies would come? Which would I leave behind to die? Oh my God.
I hope I NEVER have to face such a choice with loved ones either human or animal.
One headline on America Online. "President rallies nation" yeah. Well, I have news for you Mr. Pres. The nation is already rallying.
There isn't a site or organization that doesn't have a relief fund that can't be contributed to. It's not the Pres who's doing it. It's the nation-its people-its energy to laugh disaster in the face and conquer it. Think 9/11 now Katrina. We've had two disasters of cataclismic proportions withing 5 years. I can hear my inner mind saying "It can't be happening to us." Well, it can. It has.
Today, I'm perfecting (?) my character list for my new WIP. As it will be a category I'm keeping major characters to three, the rest secondary and minor characters. Although I do have a few secondary characters who might have a thing or two to say about that.
I've worked on premise, themes, log lines--brief character analysis with goals, motivation, conflict, character growth and personal mottos for the three majors. I'm trying to keep it to a minimum of ten although --
My setting is beginning to take shape. A university with a professor dorm that has suites and a dining room. Sort of like a renovated mansion turned bed and breakfast. That will put my H/H in close proximity. We will have a local watering hole (pizza and beer with peanut shells on the floor) The town will be a university town. Some characters will have dual roles as students/workers in town and professors.
Personally, I love college towns. Especially Itaca around Cornell University and Evanston that supports Northwestern University and University of Chicago and its campus. Maybe my town will combine some features of each.
My backstory is worked out. I may not include that in the synopsis proper, but will write a separate account--maybe as a journal from the characters POV.
I'm going to start pinpointing my blocks today. What's happening where and expand from there.
Happy reading, writing and revising from The Cottage of Blog
Pat
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