Saturday, October 24, 2009

Boyle's Law - A Character Study

Boyle's Law - A Character Study
For years I had kept a flight journal, a daily record on aircraft performance, weather and the people I met across America. When I began to get serious about fiction, I searched the writing for plots. None were there. But I did see characters rising from the mist, like a wanderer named Boyle. In Boyle there existed a beginning, middle and end to the man standing before me on the sidewalk, an envelope of meaning, a glittering spirit behind the smudged face.