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Today’s Blog Post
Characters in a Good Book
I am sure that you have read a really good book. Can you remember the characters of that book? How many main Characters were there?
Now take just one of the Characters and read the book up to say… page 25. Now what would you have that Character do – if you were to take the story over and complete the book?
I asked that question of a group of senior folk in yesterday’s “New Friends” get together.
The reaction was amazing as they pondered what the imagination had to do in order to write the rest of the book. To fathom what the author is able to do with the characters is almost too much for most people.
I am reading a story now for the second time. The one character is Phillip and another is Jack. The wretched one is William and his mother Reagan. After more than a week of slow reading and totally enjoying this book… I wasn’t able to pick up the book for a few days. I sat and thought the rest of the story out for the one character named Jack. Before I came back to the story, I had worked out a whole better life for Jack in that I knew what he should do.
I came back to the story and found out that the author didn’t think the way that I had. His character Jack went in a totally different way from where my imagination took Jack. I had a whole better way for jack to live and be. But if I had written the rest he would never have found his family… which was a delightful twist in the story. Sorry you have to read the book “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett.
The other part that was kind of weird in this reading… more than half of the book I do not remember reading. It was a like a brand new book. It is delightful the second time around.
Maybe that is age related memory issues. Yikes!
I have come back to the wonder of the imagination and how it is working all the time.
We can imagine good things as well as the bad. And it appears that most of the time with people that I know they are imagining the very worst that could happen.
And that imagination is the one thing that separates me from my pet… or the chimpanzee at the zoo. Though they show some signs of intelligence – they can not finish the story from page 25 on.
I am blown away by the authors that I have read. And the fact that each book is different from the next totally mystifies me.
Now consider giving what you write a Title… now that is a whole new thought. WOW!
What is the title of your book? What will your characters do? And why?
Here is to all the great writers that we read!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Check this out. There's a girl kicker that made a division 1 football team in Illinois.
She's on the ball
Aurora freshman may be the sole woman playing college football in Illinois
September 29, 2010|By Jack McCarthy, Special to the Tribune
Scott Strazzante, Chicago TribuneAs Sam Angell prepared for freshman year at Aurora University this summer, she wasn't content to merely pursue a degree in special education while playing softball on the side.
There was one more item on her college wish list.
Angell, a former placekicker at south suburban Bloom Township High School, also wanted to keep playing football.
"I was thinking about it the whole summer," she said. "My dad (Bill Angell) said you only get one chance to do this, to see how you are. If you don't make it, at least you tried. You don't want to look back on it and wonder, 'What if?'
"So I e-mailed (Aurora) coach (Rich) Duncan and asked if it would be OK to come out," she said.
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"We told her we'd give her a whirl and see if she was any good," said Duncan. "And if she was, we'd keep her."
The 5-foot-5-inch Chicago Heights native made the 118-player roster and may be the only woman playing college football in Illinois this fall.
No other female players turned up in a survey of several of the state's colleges. And there are reports of only a handful of women currently playing nationwide.
Most notable is Brittany Ryan, a senior starter at Lebanon Valley College, an NCAA Division III school in Annville, Pa. Ryan played in all 11 Dutchmen games last year. She was 33-of-40 on extra-point attempts and hit two of four field goal tries.
Angell hasn't appeared in any Aurora games to date. There's a senior veteran ahead of her on the depth chart and another freshman kicker on the roster.
But that's OK. All she asked for was equal treatment and a chance.
"We've treated her the same like anyone else," said Duncan. "She's a kid who wants to play sports and just happens to be a girl. ... She does everything else that everyone has to do. She holds up her end of the deal. The only difference between Sam and the other 120 guys is that she has her own locker room."
Angell was an honor roll student and two-sport athlete at Bloom. She also landed all-conference, all-area and team MVP honors as a four-year softball player and stepped in to kick for the Blazing Trojans football team as a senior.
"My coach (Tony Palombi) heard that I used to play soccer and asked me to come out to see how I was," she said. "It was a lot different from kicking a soccer ball, but he said I had good form and that he wanted to work with me and it went from there.
"It was a once in a lifetime chance and I'm glad I took it."
As a high school senior, she hit three extra points and missed a 47-yard field goal attempt.
Angell said playing in college requires a serious commitment.
"It's a lot different from high school," she said. "You have to practice more. I was scared that (fellow kickers Ryan Subick and freshman Fernando Albarran) wouldn't accept me, but they've helped me out a lot."
Duncan said he likes Angell's work ethic and abilities.
"She's got a good enough leg and she works pretty hard at it," said Duncan. "I don't know if she's ready to kick in a game yet, but she will kick in a game before her career's over."
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