Wow! What a beginning. I haven't read the ending. So many possibilities come to mind. I'm going to see now if @carolkean comes up with one of those or goes in a completely different direction.
Great job, @owasco!
Wow! What a beginning. I haven't read the ending. So many possibilities come to mind. I'm going to see now if @carolkean comes up with one of those or goes in a completely different direction.
Great job, @owasco!
I tried to keep my half consistent with @owasco's stellar first half, but lacking her flair for the unexpected, and the humorous twist, I went with the "drizzly November in my soul" theme. (It's almost November, guys!!!) - and I regret that I couldn't be more whimsical, but it *is * that time of year. It's been a lifelong struggle. I only recently became aware of the autumn effect, but awareness doesn't keep the dark spectre from rising. The trick is to overcome it, dance around it, laugh at it, get past it... Thank You @agmoore and I would love to know what possibilities YOU thought of!
I didn't get dreariness in your response (I think good writers are the harshest critics of their work). Elsie is kind of grim. You give her release. You find beauty in a story that begins with a depressed protagonist and a deceased main character.
Picking up the threads that someone has woven together and then making your own piece, seamless with the first--that takes skill. You did it.
wow - thank you!
I hope @owasco, when she starts revising, will revise my half as well to serve her vision. These are her characters. This reminds me of childhood and Barbie dolls (we only had the knock-offs), and how it feels when a cousin comes over and wants to play with YOUR doll, and does things out of keeping with the characters. My little sister and I built a "town" in the attic and had doll families. You don't just waltz in and strip off Andy Anderson's police uniform and put him in some boxers and send him to the beach to go flirt with knock-off Midge. No. No. Don't mess with my dolls!
Thinking I may be destined never to presume to do a we-write
I love the doll analogy!
hahaha. I don't know why I am getting to this comment thread so late, but I'm real glad I am. I hope you continue to write wewrites @carolkean. Do the first part! I found it easier, and freeing. The second part is hard to write because you do have to tie it in. My part just came spewing out. I met an Elsie-like person who hated sunflowers that everyone brought her cuz of a stand just outside the dirt road to her cliffside home in northampton with rugs all over the floor that I was unsure if I should step on, so that was easy. Her once famous but now deceased husband (not a musician) had been in a wheelchair. The rest is the only part I had to make up, and it just popped out.
Ahhh, the note of authenticity - no wonder your eccentric characters felt so real. Pillage and plunder real life for the fresh and original - that's my motto! You did a spendid job of bringing Elsie and Edgar to life, in their own way, with a nod to the characters who inspired them. #LoveIt
Right?! Well done and not the least bit dreary! I knew it would be difficult to continue and was glad I didn't have to do so myself.