Note: Revising poems is hard. Never again will I make Spideman Comic strip style promises at the end of blog posts.
I think it’s about time you met the main characters of my book. Some of you know them in passing, but I’d like to properly introduce you.
PENNY is a delightfully awkward girl. She’s always lived in the shadow of her sister, CASSIE, who paints and is cool and hangs out with the really exciting emo kids at school and manages to fool their mother about her whereabouts in ways that Penny just plain can’t get away with. Penny feels weird cursing and hates smoking, but nevertheless cult-worships her sister. Therefore, she’s pretty messed up when Cassie mysteriously disappears one November day. That same day she meets a bizarre, garrulous boy named ROBIN, who acts like a Shakespearean idiot most of the time but has a punch that even the hardest gangsters at school learned to respect. With his influcence, Penny increasingly becomes convinced that Cassie was actually stolen by the fairies. Penny has a hard time convincing her mum of that, though, and the investigator in charge of Cassie’s case, JERRY CROSS, thinks she’s insane. He’s troubled by strange dreams, though, that suggest Penny might just be right…
While writing this morning, Pandora pulled up a song by the British folk-rock group Steeleye Span called “Seagull”. Here are the lyrics:
Penny is shining beneath a bright light
With another resting beside her
Maybe the light one will come back tonight
With the memories she carries inside her.
Chorus:
Seagull, Seagull, Three three in a bed.
Seagull, Seagull, Three three in a bed.
Penny the hero, Penny the fool
The gold watch she gave me I’ll treasure
They say that it’s only a game after all
Apart from the pain it’s a pleasure.
Chorus
Penny is silent when fortunes are lost
She knows there is nothing worth saying
You’re all alone when you’re counting the cost
Is it more than a game you’ve been playing?
Chorus
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I LOVE it when this kind of thing happens! This fits amazingly well with the plot of my novel. Hooray.
2 comments
Kevin, Son of Nog
September 26, 2010 at 11:29 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hmm, I almost always find myself developing ideas for stories out of songs, not seeing my stories reflected in song. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that.
Cole
September 27, 2010 at 1:33 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m digging these character sketches, lady. They seem to be good grounding points, and there are a lot of opportunities to flesh them out in your work.
The song is magnificent, I have a similar Pandora awesomesauce story:
I go over to Ella’s Aunt and Uncle’s house for dinner about once a week, and we turn on music during the meal. Pandora was loaded with some classical wossname, and it had been playing for about an hour. My phone’s ringtone is R2D2. While her cousin and I were doing dishes, my phone rang. Ella was calling, and not 1 second later the computer began to play the Imperial March from Star Wars. It was killer!