100 DAYS PROJECT: #49
Earth to Moon
While I have tried to maintain a sense of humor here, the topic of the current economy-borne fear affects this couple of the story. There are a few things here that have influenced the story. The “moon” conversation is based on Steve’s story for today. Couldn’t keep Ralph and Alice Kramden out of it once the moon was mentioned. A short story I read a few years back in a lit class about blackberries (I think) definitely filed the floor plan of two people having a conversation without listening to each other. Just noticed that I also took a suggestion from Mark Bernstein on his review of #33 Idle Conversation to do away with the opening “he said” and “she said.” This, with the characters addressing each other by name occasionally and by their own dialogue easily identifies who is speaking.
What I found interesting is that once the concept of a married couple’s separate conversations with each other was established, the map that I pre-layout with twenty large and ten small writing spaces were maneuvered into two circles which shared an edge. Probably shouldn’t admit this, but they sort of looked like little people to me at this point. The narrative threads can be traversed either as individuals or back and forth at nearly every point to get the full effect of the dual-topic-ed dialogue.
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