![]() ![]() But I wasn’t able to create this narration successfully, so I decided to have the motel become one of the main characters in the novel instead. I have always loved stories told by unique narrators or unique perspectives, like death’s narration of The Book Thief. I decided at that point to have a single narrator, the motel, tell the story of its occupants. But then a third character appeared, needing his story to be told as well. Initially the novel was going to be told from the alternating first-person POV of the two main characters. I had some themes that I wanted to explore, including poverty, gender, and mental illness, which all eventually found their way into the novel. That simmered for a while, until I placed her at a run-down Scarborough motel. Two years ago I wrote a couple of paragraphs about a teenager who was a homeless runaway. My novel The Nap-Away Motel has been alive in my mind for so long now that it is hard to remember how it came into being. ![]() I’m hoping the experience will allow me to grow as a writer. I expect the long-form mentorship will help me to see the strengths and weaknesses of my writing more clearly. ![]()
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