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RE: Phantom
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