The most exciting thing that ever happened in Euldey, Texas, with the exception of Spencer Dick being struck with lightning three times in the same night, was the disappearance of Tolby Walker.
This year I have decided to participate in NaNoWriMo (NaNo) for the first time. I have decided to write Struck, which is a story I have thought about for years, and even started once. Though I like the first line, I had to scrap the rest of it. I didn’t like the POV, so I’m going to write it in the POV of the town, Euldey, Texas. Euldey is a made up town, in west Texas around Amarillo. When I was around 3-years-old, we lived in Vega, Texas, and I’m kind of basing the town on some of my parents memories of Vega, combined with memories of my mother’s family and creations out of my own imagination.
Struck is about a 15-year-old girl, Joanie searching to know her mother who died when she was born. Her father never mentions her mother. It seems to hurt him to think about her. While searching in her father’s desk for thumb tacks, she discovers a stack of letters addressed to her father from a man she has never met. In each one, this man makes a reference to her and to her mother and each letter is postmarked from Euldey, Texas. Joanie decides to go to Euldey and search for this man who knew her mother. However, finding this man proves to be more difficult than she thought, and what she learns about her mother leads her down a path strewn with family secrets that were buried the night she was born…along with other things.
We’ll see if I can get this story written (and written well) during the month of November. However, I may have to give up sleep in order to get it done. Wish me luck.
Find out more information at http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Oh, and the title comes from the first line (the one I liked):
“The most exciting thing that ever happened in Euldey, Texas, with the exception of Spencer Dick being struck by lightning three times in the same night, was the disappearance of Tolby Walker.”
Yeah, I liked it too.
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