Jan 12 2010
Plans “Too Deep”
I was getting input and information about another story I’ve had in the pipeline which is tentatively called “Too Deep” because when I first started planning it I would always associate the main character with a certain song by Sum 41: In Too Deep.
While Kore and I were cleaning up her room I was chatting with her about a dream I’d had the night before involving a couple of the characters and that talk about the dream wound up with my expounding upon the timeline of the main character’s life. He’s really alive in my head.
However I wasn’t sure if one of the things. Initially when I’d first started talking about Sam I’d thought he wound up with one of his cohorts. It seemed a little weird as the cohort wasn’t really interested in Sam that way I’d thought, and I’d felt that perhaps I contrived it just because I wanted him to be with the cohort. However the more I was talking about the dream the more I realized that his boyfriend Brad was a decent guy and it would be really a shame if they didn’t stay together because Sam being an idiot broke up with Brad when he thought that he was going to die. One of those stupid “it’ll hurt less if I die and we’re not together” sort of mindsets. I’m not sure if Sam would actually wind up with Brad, but one of the beauties of writing the story is that I can make him wind up with Brad. In fact I’ve decided the story will come from the perspective of him explaining his life to Brad as a condition of them coming back together as a couple, given one of the main issues in their relationship had been Sam not wanting to tell Brad about his past actions during the war because he was afraid of talking about that.
