Suicide – the novel, part 5
When I had the two job interviews last week I got out of sync with writing the story. I got back on Thursday, but couldn’t seem to get anywhere with the narrative.
So, I started over writing in first person. I’m starting at the end where Arne and his youngest son, Johnny, get together in a bar in Rawlins, Wyoming. Arne is on his way home after burying his younger brother’s former boyfriend. Johnny is on his way home after visiting his stepsister in New York, about fifty miles from Arne’s home.
The story will be structured as brief moments in the present as Arne and Johnny reconcile over Arne’s departure twenty-two years earlier balanced against Arne telling the story of his life from when he ran away from home at five to running away from home at fifty-five. He will talk about seeing himself as being alone throughout his life even though he has a best friend when growing up, a wife and children for eighteen years after college, and a new wife and children after the first wife dies.
He will mostly talk about struggling with depression and the consequences of listening to the insane side of your mind when you’re struggling the most.
The most important thing is I’m writing the story out. If, at the end, I decide to go back and do it in third person, at least I’ll have the whole story to work with instead of having to completely rewrite it as I’m trying to do with my second novel.
So, I started over writing in first person. I’m starting at the end where Arne and his youngest son, Johnny, get together in a bar in Rawlins, Wyoming. Arne is on his way home after burying his younger brother’s former boyfriend. Johnny is on his way home after visiting his stepsister in New York, about fifty miles from Arne’s home.
The story will be structured as brief moments in the present as Arne and Johnny reconcile over Arne’s departure twenty-two years earlier balanced against Arne telling the story of his life from when he ran away from home at five to running away from home at fifty-five. He will talk about seeing himself as being alone throughout his life even though he has a best friend when growing up, a wife and children for eighteen years after college, and a new wife and children after the first wife dies.
He will mostly talk about struggling with depression and the consequences of listening to the insane side of your mind when you’re struggling the most.
The most important thing is I’m writing the story out. If, at the end, I decide to go back and do it in third person, at least I’ll have the whole story to work with instead of having to completely rewrite it as I’m trying to do with my second novel.
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