[Anah] Weeks 9 & 10: Backstory Part Two

This second exercise is starting to get into the 'writing' business of things.  For this memory, I concentrated on James' sense of hearing more than anything else. This is when he gets his first computer.

Here, you can see the other notes I made following that scene, things I didn't include and could have if I'd been writing this as a flashback.

Now, on to what James wants. His desires are still heavily influenced by his traditional upbringing and his parents, for all that his life is not what they'd wanted for him. They accept his sexuality and love him, but their dream was always for a 'normal' life for him. That's not to say they're not proud of him now, but the dissonance affects James on a deep level.

I was aware that James' parents' wishes and dreams had some effect on him but it was writing his background that let me see how much he feels he owes them for his life and how badly he wants to please them.  The pressure is all from him, not from his parents, who would be saddened to know that he still feels some sense of inadequacy around his life accomplishments, and over things he can't possibly control and still be true to himself.