For People Interested in Writing Structure
Here is the Author’s Statement I drafted years ago for Cats on a Pole
Goodreads Book Page
CATS ON A POLE is a metaphysical love story of two psychically-gifted people who are isolated—like cats stuck up on a telephone pole—by their gifts. Charismatic healer and teacher Joshua Gardner and his student Harmony Rogers carry on a passionate love affair without physical contact, a battle of wills without speech, a psychic duel between male and female equals who have, for the first time, met their match … but nobody wins.
This is a complex “under-the-skin” dance portrait of two characters who are usually seen two-dimensionally: a charismatic leader who is either idealized or condemned and an odd-ball loner who watches others but rarely comes out of the shadows. The story emerges like a dance with the first chapter serving as a prelude to something that is repeated later on when the linear story catches up to it.
The essential question dealt with in Cats on a Pole is: What is going on between people in relationship? How do we really communicate? Can we find the courage to admit to ourselves the truth of how much we know and how we know it, and then reveal this to others?
My hope is that readers will recognize their own senses in this story—sensations, smells, or physical feelings they perhaps have dismissed as “nothing” or fantasy—and begin to accept them as real. In so doing, we must then take responsibility for our effect on others. And in taking responsibility, we find freedom.
But all of this is subliminal—in the fiber of a good, sometimes funny, story—and it doesn’t matter if it is ever articulated.
The book and e-book are available everywhere, but you can get discount paperbacks in the USA: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?KD...
Goodreads Book Page
CATS ON A POLE is a metaphysical love story of two psychically-gifted people who are isolated—like cats stuck up on a telephone pole—by their gifts. Charismatic healer and teacher Joshua Gardner and his student Harmony Rogers carry on a passionate love affair without physical contact, a battle of wills without speech, a psychic duel between male and female equals who have, for the first time, met their match … but nobody wins.
This is a complex “under-the-skin” dance portrait of two characters who are usually seen two-dimensionally: a charismatic leader who is either idealized or condemned and an odd-ball loner who watches others but rarely comes out of the shadows. The story emerges like a dance with the first chapter serving as a prelude to something that is repeated later on when the linear story catches up to it.
The essential question dealt with in Cats on a Pole is: What is going on between people in relationship? How do we really communicate? Can we find the courage to admit to ourselves the truth of how much we know and how we know it, and then reveal this to others?
My hope is that readers will recognize their own senses in this story—sensations, smells, or physical feelings they perhaps have dismissed as “nothing” or fantasy—and begin to accept them as real. In so doing, we must then take responsibility for our effect on others. And in taking responsibility, we find freedom.
But all of this is subliminal—in the fiber of a good, sometimes funny, story—and it doesn’t matter if it is ever articulated.
The book and e-book are available everywhere, but you can get discount paperbacks in the USA: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?KD...
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