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Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, Key Yemaya Walker, Peachtree Center, Sacramento, UNC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Origins of Blue Lines manuscript…
Keeping The Integrity of the Work…
Disclaimer – Before I continue, I would like to make two very important points in regard to my material and to anyone’s feelings. Because of my intellectual property, and my goal for this to begin my being published, I have to be vague in many areas of the story’s actual content. I would like to add that should anyone be offended by ANYTHING that I go forward with: 1) if it will offend you, please read objectively, my goal is not and has never been to embarrass or disrespect anyone; 2) although I am explaining why Blue Lines was written, this is a public forum and names will be omitted to protect the innocent; 3) if you know me now, and did not then, this also applies as this relates to why I wrote my work.
Alright…this time around I’m not biding my time in Starbucks waiting to head toward the airport. Let us make this a little bit easier to follow. Protagonist, from this point forward known by the characters initials KYW, of course we have the antagonist, Blue Hurt. So let the story continue…
Again, one of my main focuses was to develop a unique and tangible character, therefore I had the initial context on which to build KYW, and the manuscript allowed for her to develop into the main focus of the book. But, as the manuscript expanded, and began to allow people to read some of the work, the conundrum was to keep the focus pure. What I mean by pure, is that when writing a manuscript about a woman, through the voice of that woman, and when the woman on which KYW is based is not around, those who are around started to infiltrate the development of my character.
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