Greenscape

Dean Forrester had the ultimate life. He had money, he had women, he never paid taxes and most of his days were spent playing golf and drinking for free. He was prepared to live out the rest of his days like this - until one phone call from home ruined it all.

Sunday, November 07, 2004

Resell value

I'm at just under 11,500 - making me about 200 words under the Nano mark for today. I'm having more problems stringing the Dean and Sissy sections together than I thought, even though I know where things are supposed to be going, edging these sections together without making it seemed forced is a bit difficult.

I'd like to make a shout-out to fellows of the IWU school of writing and admit that Greenscape is, in part, a story about liminal space. Liminal space is a literary concept which basically says you're writing with the lines of transition - that the main character isn't really in one place at one time, but rather two or more places at one time - developmentally speaking. Great Gatsby is a notable novel which makes use of liminal space. Problem with liminal space is that you can find it almost everywhere, leading to many IWU jokes that everything was in liminal space.

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