Being sick really helps!!! A LOT!!!
Note to self before I begin...add 2 new scenes: one for Betsy's funeral and the other for the FISTING SCENE!!!
First, a word from our sponsor: I am making another video for YouTube...the soundtrack for Bright. It's a LOT longer than the soundtrack vid I made for Crush. It's probably because for Bright, I was listening more to genres of music I like the most: classic rock, riot girl, alternative rock, and awesome bands/singers I discovered on Myspace over the years (i.e. Koop, Telepopmusik, Twin Shadow, Daughter, Annie Barker, Jen Gloeckner, etc.) I'm a grouchy old bag when it comes to music, very out of touch with much of today's "top 40" stuff. I added a lot of top 40 to my Crush DS because of the fact that "The End", the bar in Sommerville, had a lot of teenagers, during and after Tammy and Jamie completed high school, performing at the weekly karaoke parties.
Okay...Having just endured 3 miserable days in the hospital, I am mildly surprised to realize that upon a fresh reading of previous chapters of Bright, my characters, Monty, Walter and Natalie have really come into their own. I always had a rough idea about who they are, but it never ceases to amaze me to go back and see my old notes, the evolution of these 3 people from ideas in a notebook to living, breathing entities with minds of their own. Monty proved he has his own idea of what he will be when he turned from a shallow shithead I really didn't like too much to a genuinely kind, sensitive, beautiful person. Walter was not much more than a sniveling ninny who allowed his stepmother to fuck up his life in every way, but he, as frail as he is physically, became the kind of iron willed fighter that I would either fear tangling with or love to fight beside.
My days in the hospital gave me new inspiration, not only for new scenes for Bright, but for myself. I've learned recently that I am very sick, much sicker than I thought, and I no longer have it in me to allow my homophobic, ignorant, prejudiced family and former friends to try to intimidate me into going back to that miserable, confused wretch I used to be. Life must march on, and I've come too far to go back to that place I hated :)
For a brief time, I am sharing a few chapters of BRIGHT on my WattPad page. Please feel free to come read and leave feedback if you will.
http://www.wattpad.com/user/laurasusa...
First, a word from our sponsor: I am making another video for YouTube...the soundtrack for Bright. It's a LOT longer than the soundtrack vid I made for Crush. It's probably because for Bright, I was listening more to genres of music I like the most: classic rock, riot girl, alternative rock, and awesome bands/singers I discovered on Myspace over the years (i.e. Koop, Telepopmusik, Twin Shadow, Daughter, Annie Barker, Jen Gloeckner, etc.) I'm a grouchy old bag when it comes to music, very out of touch with much of today's "top 40" stuff. I added a lot of top 40 to my Crush DS because of the fact that "The End", the bar in Sommerville, had a lot of teenagers, during and after Tammy and Jamie completed high school, performing at the weekly karaoke parties.
Okay...Having just endured 3 miserable days in the hospital, I am mildly surprised to realize that upon a fresh reading of previous chapters of Bright, my characters, Monty, Walter and Natalie have really come into their own. I always had a rough idea about who they are, but it never ceases to amaze me to go back and see my old notes, the evolution of these 3 people from ideas in a notebook to living, breathing entities with minds of their own. Monty proved he has his own idea of what he will be when he turned from a shallow shithead I really didn't like too much to a genuinely kind, sensitive, beautiful person. Walter was not much more than a sniveling ninny who allowed his stepmother to fuck up his life in every way, but he, as frail as he is physically, became the kind of iron willed fighter that I would either fear tangling with or love to fight beside.
My days in the hospital gave me new inspiration, not only for new scenes for Bright, but for myself. I've learned recently that I am very sick, much sicker than I thought, and I no longer have it in me to allow my homophobic, ignorant, prejudiced family and former friends to try to intimidate me into going back to that miserable, confused wretch I used to be. Life must march on, and I've come too far to go back to that place I hated :)
For a brief time, I am sharing a few chapters of BRIGHT on my WattPad page. Please feel free to come read and leave feedback if you will.
http://www.wattpad.com/user/laurasusa...
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