Archive for April, 2009

Words written: 2,650
Settings: Somerset, England at the Widcrest. London, at the apartment.
Perspective: Ryan and Renata’s respective narratives

Favorite line (#wipfavline on twitter):

I had expected some sort of shock written on her face, but instead it spelled the realization of an expectation. It’s as if she knew this day would come. “Do we have to go?” she asked, holding onto her knees tightly.

“I’m sorry, but we do,” I said and left it at that. I knew she needed no further explanation. We sat there quietly for a moment, and just as I’d felt responsible for the rain that kept us indoors, I now felt responsible for the media cyclone we were going to have to run from.

© 2009 Rochelle Michael

I know it’s probably silly to keep posting about great things I find over on Le Love, but this is another great video that was posted there today. As I’ve mentioned before I’m always looking for translations and depictions of love in all varieties. The dialogue says so much about the reality of love, and a relationship.

As I try to build the tension between my characters, especially at the point where I’m at, it is even more helpful to hear, literally hear, words put together like this and expressed in this way. My characters right now are starting to sink into insecurity as a deadline approaches them, a fixed date that will separate them from each other. As that date gets closer they sink further and further into their insecurity, because neither is addressing the impending separation. She is not asking to stay, and he is not asking her to stay.

Love is incredibly frustrating and there are so many misunderstandings. How many times does one feel disappointed when their mate doesn’t meet their expectations? And so much about not meeting expectations is tied up in communication. My characters aren’t communicating right now as they should. Although they continue to make the most of their experience together, it’s getting harder and harder for them to push their insecurities aside for the sake of their moment.

Words written: 930
Setting: Somerset, England at the Widcrest
Perspective: Renata’s narrative

Favorite line (#wipfavline on twitter):

We may not have read as many sonnets as he planned, but two seemed to be enough to make our own poetry.
© 2009 Rochelle Michael

Words written today: 1,213
Setting: Somerset, England at the Widcrest
Perspective: Ryan’s narrative

Favorite line (#wipfavline on twitter):

She would have a window into my life and I’d have nothing. No way to see her or watch as she changes over the years, unless she let me somehow, but that seemed unlikely. I wasn’t feeling so keen about living on the unfortunate side of one-way glass.
© 2009 Rochelle Michael