About a Girl
I’m writing a new story, or at least a new series of characters. I honestly don’t know who they will become or what they will do. I only know that I need to write them.
The main character, Eva, is fifteen. She is heavily influenced by her older sister Summer, who happens to be about my age. Summer is trying to be “normal.” Actually, “trying” isn’t even the right word for it. She just is very normal. Eva isn’t sure how she feels about this idea of growing up.
Eva’s mentality about that definitely mirrors my own feelings at the age of fifteen on “growing up.”
Eva has two parents that were young hippies when they had her older brother Rain, and Summer. As I say in what I’ve already written, somewhere in between then and Eva’s birth, they found Jesus, but in a much more forgiving and welcoming form than that of their Catholic forbears. They don’t push Christ onto Eva, but hope that someday she will come to him on her own.
Eva wears all of her sister’s old clothing and listens to mix tapes that Summer left behind when she went to college. I think the music is going to have some sort of effect on this story. I’ve been listening to a lot of Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains lately, as well as hearing Letters to Cleo’s “Here and Now” on the new “modern rock” station here in Connecticut. It’s affecting the way I approach this story.
Eva also has an odd relationship with her best friend. She is in love with him, but he’s clueless. She doesn’t know what to do about that.
I don’t know who he is yet. Though the situation mirrors my own life to a degree, Aidan is very different from any boy that I’ve ever known. He may represent some sort of former ideal of mine.
There will be another boy waiting in the wings to steal her heart, though, if, alas, she will only notice him.
In the meantime, I think that Summer’s story will be of great import. The book may actually switch perspective here and there. It’s already third person, so if I keep the chapters limited-third-person, than I can swap perspective. I think that Matt, the boy that will try to steal Eva’s heart, might need his own chapters.
I’m basing him off of a teenager I once met. I used to think of him as “Emo Boy,” and never got to know him well enough to really influence who he will be. But this Matt (whose name may change) will also be “Emo Boy.” And he might also want to be what the original “Emo Boy” wanted to be when he grew up. Who knows.
And that’s the word from the creative front. I hope I keep these kids. I kind of like where this is going. I need some more info on Rain, and what he does in life. I need to decide how much of the high school life will come into play in this piece as well. I don’t know if I really want that going on. I could have the story take place in the summer months, which would avoid problems of that ilk.
But now, now, I must go serve coffee. Perhaps I’ll buy a cup myself if I can get to work early.
