Youths in My Stories

There are several young people who appear in my stories.  One is, of course, Gena, and later, Erin, in Helen's story.  An important one is Lena, who appears in the Galactic Voyager story, together with Summer.  Alexandra (the story) contains the lovable Ninel.  The Jane stories feature the teen nude model Zsuszana, who is persuaded to take up conventional modeling instead. 

I often think that, in my mind, these characters are blurred together, and it's difficult for me not to think of them as a real person.  In fact, I often think, late at night, that I'll ask one of them, Ninel, or Erin, to solve some problem for me!  When I wake up in the morning, I realize that my 'solution' involves enlisting the aid of an imaginary character, and it leaves me more bereft than you can know.

This compound character is much more completely fleshed-out in my mind than she is in any of the stories; it is my fear—and regret— that my readers will only have a sort of half- formed picture of her.  I don't have any idea how to remedy the situation.  Gena/Erin/Ninel/Lena is a superhero in my mind, much more than Helen, or Alexandra, or Jane, or Aggie, or Maia!

Well, that's my life; once you have created, or given birth, to a character, she never dies. 

Kay

Music that Helen Didn't Play

I was recently listening to some music—on YouTube, of course—in fact, some of my favorite pieces, and got to thinking that I never wrote that Helen, in her conductor days, ever featured some of these!  (I could be wrong; it's been a couple of years since I went into the Helen story, but I remember mostly choral music being conducted by Helen.  There was a set of symphonic variations by Brahms (the St. Anthony Chorale Variations), and the Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.  Then of course, there were a number of violin pieces: concertos, mostly, and other pieces featuring solo violin.  The problem was that my musical experience was pretty small, Back in the early 2000s when I wrote Helen at Westfield, which was the story in which she did most of the conducting. 

So the music that I put in the stories would have been too little for those who were interested in music, and too much for those who weren't interested in the music!!!

Kay