Weekend Writing Warriors 7/21/13

Street Glass is my novel-in-progress. My tagline: Underprivileged 18-yr-old Latino leaves street gang and befriends white, over-privileged musicians.

While some of the plot is subject to change (draft two is a pretty early draft, after all) the basic elements will stay, as will the character "voices." So these excerpts will still give you a good idea of how the plot plays out and what the characters are like. The year is 1986, in Los Angeles, California.

All the previous excerpts are collected here.

I’m now referring to Razor as Neal, which is his given name. Well, we had a rousing excerpt last time! As it turns out, Neal only scratched himself though it did need a bandage. So now his clothes look like they’d been at the bottom of a dumpster, his hair looks like he stepped on a live wire, his expression at any given moment could sour milk, his tattoos add a creepy touch, and his throat is bandaged. Conversation with the band is still tense. 

Eric crossed his arms as Neal stalked over to him and said, “I learn to stay alive in the ’hood. I fuck up there and I’m dead -- you fuck up here, you still alive. For learning, I watch you. You afraid ’cause you a lousy teacher?”

“And people say I’ve got an attitude.” Eric pointed at Neal and leaned toward him. “You want to work with our road techs, fine, but you will not touch any of my guitars, my pedals, my cables, or anything else of mine -- if you do, you’re dead meat. Is that clear?”

“We can’t even touch his shit,” Brian said, “so now he’s treating you like everybody else .”

Tag along at Weekend Writing Warriors as we blog hop all over the world, reading fabulous snippets from works in progress, works just published and some just about to be. It's interesting to read comments and see who had the same impression as you and who read the snippet a different way. Personally, I not only love the kind things people say about my own story, but the sentence limit forces me to think about what needs to be said and what doesn't. That's very valuable for a writer.

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