What It's Been Like The Trenches
When You See I'm Writing More Excuses for No Posts
But I've never been this far ahead in a serial and I guess I'm trying to keep that lead. I really do see myself posting more often, so hold me to it.
Vice 2 Update
So, I don't know if I've mentioned this but I've finally flexed my third person muscles in Vice 2. It's kind of weird because I've never written the Vice/Veritas world from anyone's POV except Alan, but that may or may not be changing. Although I did just write half a third person chapter in first person by mistake...so I have no idea what that means.
Also, Vice has NO playlist. I've pretty much been just listening to Coldplay for it...if that tells you anything.
Chapter 5
Matty
Matty is kind of an interesting character in that he didn't exist in the original version of HMLIS. I had kind of outlined Corinne's friends and then I realized Jonah needed a friend too. Originally, it was going to be neighbor he grew up with who went to community college and was kind of Jonah's opposite, but I couldn't figure out when to introduce him.
Around this time I came across Haben Girma, a blind-deaf Harvard Law School Grad and advocate and I really wanted to do something with a successful blind-deaf character. Matty being a savant came about because, well the stories about savants I came across are just amazing. Although a lot of them aren't really famous. I also like Matty's character because it gave some insight into what Jonah's Dad book was about without me having to write passages from it.
Speaking of the book, his Dad's Pulitzer prize winning book, How My Light is Spent is based on Siddhartha Mukherjee's Pulitzer prize winning The Emperor of Maladies, which is about cancer.
So, you're also probably wondering why he is a British...well, it's because he's pretty much based on Ed Sheerhan. In my head, Matty doesn't look like the kind of person who would be a serious pianist. He's kind of scruffy and unkept.
Side note: This is not the first time I will unimaginatively base a character's looks on a real person.
Chapter Six
Jonah has successfully gotten the key for the archives and he's ready to go find answers, but Abigail insists they go find Corinne...who's been AWOL since she broke up with her boyfriend.
Chapter Six
Playlist
-1- Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeah
-2- Are We Waiting by Green Day (just the first 2:44 before it switches)
-3- Fix You by Coldplay
