Purpose of this blog...
My novel, Piper to the Alternative, (P2A) is sitting while I complete a prequel. I am doing some fine-tuning and initiating topics for short stories that may be spun off from it (P2A) where there is not time in the novel to digress. So, perhaps you will bear with me as I jot things down and mull them over here.
What is P2A about? The title came to me so long ago it seems it was in a dream -- in the late 70's, before there was a vital alternative movement in lifestyles and health. It seemed somehow connected to a mandate I felt I had received when I (returned to) playing the flute after a long bout of turning my back on God and defying that God even existed. The mandate was "to play the alternative to hopelessness and despair." That seemed a gigantic task. And one I didn't understand. Neither did I understand the need to write a novel. In fact, at one point I took my earliest draft and notes and tossed them all into a dumpster. I left them overnight and decided that if I retrieved them (if they were still there) I would need to commit to completing the book.
Well, that doesn't describe P2A either. If you were to take the opera "Die Zauberflote", place it in the 20th century, have the characters relate to each other in detailed and personal ways, not in a mystical Egyptian temple, but in a medium-sized town in the Midwest (ultimately), one would end up with P2A.
So, should my posts seem confusing, please peek at their counterparts in the opera and then, with luck, these vignettes will make sense.
What is P2A about? The title came to me so long ago it seems it was in a dream -- in the late 70's, before there was a vital alternative movement in lifestyles and health. It seemed somehow connected to a mandate I felt I had received when I (returned to) playing the flute after a long bout of turning my back on God and defying that God even existed. The mandate was "to play the alternative to hopelessness and despair." That seemed a gigantic task. And one I didn't understand. Neither did I understand the need to write a novel. In fact, at one point I took my earliest draft and notes and tossed them all into a dumpster. I left them overnight and decided that if I retrieved them (if they were still there) I would need to commit to completing the book.
Well, that doesn't describe P2A either. If you were to take the opera "Die Zauberflote", place it in the 20th century, have the characters relate to each other in detailed and personal ways, not in a mystical Egyptian temple, but in a medium-sized town in the Midwest (ultimately), one would end up with P2A.
So, should my posts seem confusing, please peek at their counterparts in the opera and then, with luck, these vignettes will make sense.
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