I definitely have the same thing often...I have tons of story ideas and starters and snatches of dialogue written down, but hammering those out into a full plot can be tricky.
As for this scene...it feels like a great opening for a novel to me, about the winter. The line about the river, 'days and weeks to come where it would freeze solid' is gorgeously atmospheric and provocative, and suggests to me that their lives are heading into an angsty place, a place where things they wanted, dreams they were trying to make happen, will have the breaks put on big time. Maybe these are two kids that had been planning on getting out of their small town and going to college, only for finances or family obligations to conspire to keep them at home, so they're left with a winter or a year figuring out who they're going to be now...
That's where my brain started walking when you set down this map. *g*
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Date: 2006-08-09 03:48 pm (UTC)As for this scene...it feels like a great opening for a novel to me, about the winter. The line about the river, 'days and weeks to come where it would freeze solid' is gorgeously atmospheric and provocative, and suggests to me that their lives are heading into an angsty place, a place where things they wanted, dreams they were trying to make happen, will have the breaks put on big time. Maybe these are two kids that had been planning on getting out of their small town and going to college, only for finances or family obligations to conspire to keep them at home, so they're left with a winter or a year figuring out who they're going to be now...
That's where my brain started walking when you set down this map. *g*