For quite a few months, I've been working on this story about a recently orphaned 17-year-old girl named Cecily Trilby Birche, who must move into a small flat in Detroit, 1906 and take care of her baby sister Eliza while getting by on very little funds. She has been searching for a job as her rent is getting close to being due and there is not enough money. A while after finding happily situated employment, Cecily embarks on a search for her estranged paternal grandparents, helped along by devoted friend Grace and persistent suitor Donovan.
Well, I was going splendidly, but on page 17, over a month ago, I got STUCK. Finally, last night, I thought of something, and voila! I am unstuck, mostly. I have only just began the though of the search for her grandparents, and I hope it will go okay from now on.
I have been writing it in first person, which I don't think I have ever done before. It gives me a new way of writing, but sometimes it is a bit tricky. I like it for the most part, though.
I do have to go through it and add more about Cecily's grief for her parents and 2 other siblings, which is hard to do without making it cheesy!
My one dilemma is a title. It always is. I can not think of a single thing to call it, which is most vexing. Any hints?
Which is there more about. The search for the grandparents, or caring for her sister and that kind of thing?
ReplyDeleteEr...there are lots of points. Not really in order of importance:
Delete1. Search for grandparents
2. Caring for Eliza
3. Her search for a job, and eventual employment at Pensten's Stationery.
4. Donovan Graton's courtship of Cecily. (I might change his last name, it sounds wierd, like some sort of food.) At first she resists, but he ends up helping her find her relations.
5. Grief over her parents and siblings death of diptheria.
6. Cecily is also an aspiring writer like us, but she doesn't have much chance to write now, so she has to find the time. She is also very proud, not as in puffed up 'look at me' proud, but in always wanting to be self-sufficient, and sometimes it gets her into trouble.
7. Last but not least, her close friendship with neighbor Grace Ferguson, who is a few years older than Cecily and takes care of Eliza often.
So...those are the main points I can think of now.