I seem to be spending a lot of time in the card shops or at least the card sections of local stores lately. Birthdays aren't the only reason I'm there--condolence cards have been bought and paid for by me more in the last few weeks than I ever remember.
I guess that old adage about everything coming in sets of 3 is true, or maybe it's just that these people were all elderly and summer, with its heat, seems to take more than energy out of us. I was relieved to buy birthday cards, three of them fun and one sentimental, and an engagement card on my last trip to Target. Then I heard about another death on my mother's side of the family over the weekend. The cycle evidently wasn't over after all.
We all have to deal with the Grim Reaper, but I think I've had enough of him in real life. This is at a time in my second draft of "Indelible" where I have to revise the chapters where the two protagonists have to deal with sudden death and then the chapter about the funeral. While I realize that in this case, fiction and reality are not related, they do seem to be on somewhat of a parallel path.
I'll need to make sure I get out and socialize, so I don't fall into a Real Funk. While a bonefide R F will do wonders for my bonding with my characters and getting into their heads, it can also result in me becoming quite blue and introverted, thereby isolating myself. Then life will really imitate art, and I could spend the rest of the summer under a cloud that follows me wherever I go. The uplifting part of "Indelible" will happen after all these events that really do bring the protagonists to their darkest hour and their moment of revelation, or at least on Kaylen's part. Brian is still a bit dense where his feelings are concerned, and he will have to confront them more frequently, and painfully, as the second and third books come together.
In the meantime, I make sure I let plenty of light into the apartment and get out in the fresh air and sun more frequently. It's good to remember life and the living at times like this.

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