This morning's revelation

[pjthompson]

This morning—or actually, I guess it's afternoon—I realized that I might not have dueling novels after all. I've been thinking of these as "part of JK's story" and "part of Sam's" story when, really, the answer has been staring me in the face all the time.

It's Ramona's story.

She won't be telling it herself and that's what's confused me. Ramona's story actually works better viewed from the observation of others, and that's a deeply unconventional way of telling a story, at least for me. But it's an ironic, twisty, humorous story—although I doubt Ramona would understand the irony of it all. She is, within her narrow confines, even more earnest than JK and deeply committed to her own P.O.V., and that view is often at odds with everyone else's perception of reality (including the reader's, I suspect). So the irony only works when told on the outside, and it's all about shaking up perception.

So I am both dismayed and energized by this revelation. The discovery process is what thrills me about writing, but now I have to refigure wherein square one lies so that I can mosey my way back to it. I suspect it starts with that damned story between JK and Ramona, but I'm not going to stop the flow of what's going on now in order to do that moseying. I'm pushing forward with this since it's flowing so well. If it dries up, or if it brings fresh revelations and ideas, I...may do something else.

In the meantime, onward.


I caught this morning morning's minion...

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Weird when threads merge, eh?

[pjthompson]

Yeah, very. But cool.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Awesome revelation... I knew there was more to Ramona than we thought, and your description of why she can't tell the story herself makes perfect sense from what you've said of her in the past.

[pjthompson]

She kept telling me right from the start that I was getting her all wrong. I first made her an object of fun but she wasn't going to stand for that. She said, "Respect me. I deserve respect!" And I said, "Yes, ma'am." :-)

[hollailama.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Yay Brain of PJ!

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

That's a sign of a darn good character!

[pjthompson]

Except I'm never sure it's my brain that realizes these things. :-)

[pjthompson]

She's a character, all right. ;-)