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(SIDE NOTE: if you’d like to ratchet up the anticipation and drama of
this coming revelation, please see this morning’s blog where I compared myself
to a dirty and rather gummy old man. It really was a hoot.)
Ok, here we go!
Last night, laying in bed reading John Grisham, my mind as far away
from colonial Pennsylvania as it’s possible to get, I was struck by a lightning
bolt of inspiration.
Snap! Crackle! POW!!
(At this point I might have yelped a little but that is neither here
nor there.)
My story about the six Scots-Irish brothers fighting for America in the
War of Independence (yeah, you know, that
story) finally has its shape!
By shape, I mean how I’m going to tell their story. Am I going to write
a song about the boys? Will I whip out the old iambic pentameter and put the
tale to verse? Or will I go the YA route and add a stalking vampire or a
shirtless werewolf to the colonial mix?
The answer to all of the above suggestions is a fervent “No.”
Instead, each of the six brothers will get their own short story (I’m
aiming at 10K words for each). These stories will be able to be read/published separately
as complete entities all to themselves, but they can also be read/published as
an anthology whose stories all interconnect with one another in the same “universe.”
For example…
Story 1: Jack Brown’s Revolutionary war experience as a blacksmith in
the town of NoPlace, Pennsylvania during the year 1776.
Story 2: Larry Brown’s Revolutionary war experience as a school teacher
in the town of NoPlace, PA during 1776.
Story 3: David Brown’s Revolutionary war experience as a farmer in the
town of…
Story 4: Zeke Brown’s….
Got it?
Ok, think along the lines of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Each of the
tales could be read separately and fully enjoyed, but when put together “Wham!”
a novel experience occurs.
Instead of travelers, we’ll have brothers.
Instead of the stories being written in Middle English, they’ll be
written in a Chloe Stowe approximation of colonial (Yeah, still don’t know how
that’s going to work yet. Should be interesting not to mention a teensy bit
masochistic on my part. *lol*)
I’m sure this kind of stuff has been done to death. It’s probably old
hat and a real yawner to some of you more accomplished writers out there, but
it’s new to me. Better yet, it’ll be a challenge to me, and therefore one to
all of you who dare to follow me.
Is there a market for this stuff? I don’t know.
Hey, I might have to throw in a romantic angle into each story to get
it to market, but I hope not. That’s not how I plan to write it, at least. Of
course the best laid plans of mice and men… yeah, well, you know.
And that, ladies and gents, was my eureka moment.
I will now take my gummy old man by the hand and go home.
Until tomorrow…
Chloe
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