A Jodie Update: Progress is Progressing
I should probably update where I am as far as Jodie.
Right now Jodie's 32,164 words. I wanna say this one should be around 80k by the time I get done but nothing's set in stone per se.
Jodie started life as a sort of Carrie narrative (but with possessed dolls and a final sequence in a corn field instead of a doomed prom) I wrote as a very new teenage writer who was still pretty influenced by all the things I was in love with from media back then- so basically a tad more emotionally involved b flick of a short story that I loved but instantly knew would need to be rewritten and drawn out into something much bigger when I had finished writing it.
Now Jodie speaks about the nature of small town life, people who fall outside of the mainstream, trauma, loss, and coming to grips with changing identity and sexuality when you grew up in a small town, particularly a rural Ohio town haunted by some of the same things my own hometown and county were affected by like natural disasters, dark history, societal expectations, intergenerational trauma, and the wicked nature of weaponized hate in an alternate reality version of 1975. Mom's era.
A ton of writing Jodie is knowing how things end and having to write more about where everything went and where it started before we hit that point. I definitely have a much better idea of how to write what I was trying to say with Jodie now but its also important to make sure I have sensitivity and awareness thoroughly in mind for all of the different people and experiences in this thing. I'd like to think I'm doing pretty good there but I'm gonna wanna consider having someone I trust read through the draft to be sure maybe.
Here, have some visual representations of Jodie, Ben, and Earlie to get an idea of who my primary characters are.
Jodie: MC who is a sort of lost child/wild child who has certain witchy powers.
Ben: Jodie's half brother who resents her because he was raised to by his mother as much as because he has his own issues with her based on his perspectives about their shared father's death and her part in it.
Earlie: the guy who is stuck in between these two because he's kind of got a crush/ entanglement with Jodie and a complex friendship with Ben who has been his best friend for most of their lives.
It's a lot more complicated than all of this but I kept it simple here.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this by now because a lot of my books have queer narratives, but yes this one has queer narratives involved.
Right now Jodie's 32,164 words. I wanna say this one should be around 80k by the time I get done but nothing's set in stone per se.
Jodie started life as a sort of Carrie narrative (but with possessed dolls and a final sequence in a corn field instead of a doomed prom) I wrote as a very new teenage writer who was still pretty influenced by all the things I was in love with from media back then- so basically a tad more emotionally involved b flick of a short story that I loved but instantly knew would need to be rewritten and drawn out into something much bigger when I had finished writing it.
Now Jodie speaks about the nature of small town life, people who fall outside of the mainstream, trauma, loss, and coming to grips with changing identity and sexuality when you grew up in a small town, particularly a rural Ohio town haunted by some of the same things my own hometown and county were affected by like natural disasters, dark history, societal expectations, intergenerational trauma, and the wicked nature of weaponized hate in an alternate reality version of 1975. Mom's era.
A ton of writing Jodie is knowing how things end and having to write more about where everything went and where it started before we hit that point. I definitely have a much better idea of how to write what I was trying to say with Jodie now but its also important to make sure I have sensitivity and awareness thoroughly in mind for all of the different people and experiences in this thing. I'd like to think I'm doing pretty good there but I'm gonna wanna consider having someone I trust read through the draft to be sure maybe.
Here, have some visual representations of Jodie, Ben, and Earlie to get an idea of who my primary characters are.
Jodie: MC who is a sort of lost child/wild child who has certain witchy powers.
Ben: Jodie's half brother who resents her because he was raised to by his mother as much as because he has his own issues with her based on his perspectives about their shared father's death and her part in it.
Earlie: the guy who is stuck in between these two because he's kind of got a crush/ entanglement with Jodie and a complex friendship with Ben who has been his best friend for most of their lives.
It's a lot more complicated than all of this but I kept it simple here.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this by now because a lot of my books have queer narratives, but yes this one has queer narratives involved.
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