Hi! T. Elliott Brown guest-blogging today so Chudney can take the
day
off to celebrate her birthday.
We wouldn't want her to think we forgot. A forgotten birthday is
a traumatic thing. I know.
When I was about eight, everyone forgot my birthday, including
me. I know it sounds impossible to forget your own birthday, but I did, and so
did my mom. She was pregnant and life was busy. Birthdays were never big
parties in our family. Usually we had a cake and a special family dinner. That
year my birthday didn't seem to matter very much, though I always remember that
we forgot it.
In my novel, Bombshells, Melanie’s forgotten
birthday is the opening scene, and begins a string of coming of age incidents
which culminate during the thirteen terrifying days known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, when
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev faced off over Russian missiles in Cuba
in 1962.
Often things that are simply life events become great tools in
fiction. A birthday, a lost necklace or a fender-bender may be bothersome
details in real-life, but can become a catalyst or a turning point in the
story.
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| Bombshells: T. Elliott Brown Amazon.com: Books |
How would a forgotten birthday change your story?
But, just to make sure Chudney knows we didn't forget her birthday,
take a minute to sing-along with the Bartles' cover of the Beatles’
tune “Birthday.”
T. Elliott Brown can be found on Facebook, @telliottbrown on
Twitter, and www.bombshellsbook.com
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