Weekend Writing Warriors 2/24/13

         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.

I'm collecting all the snippets here so you can easily see what's going on.

This week, I switch scenes to introduce my other main character, Sandy, who’s the drummer for a big-time rock-n-roll band. They’re rehearsing before a tour. One of the guys shouts out to kick up the tempo on Eric’s song … but he hasn’t cleared that with Eric.

Bouncing on his seat, Sandy hammered the snare and spread of toms. The thunder reverberated in his gut and made his head ring, and it was glorious. The cymbals winked at him as they bobbed on their stands under the changing colors of the overhead lights.

Lennie’s swirling piano notes turned into something like Elton John on speed. Eric’s guitar squealed and not in a good way; it dropped out of the music as he threw his hands up.

Brian’s bass wobbled to a stop and the piano chords skipped some notes before disappearing. Sandy kept clicking the hi-hats then quit even that.

Standing at center stage, Eric leveled a drop dead glare at Lennie, then Sandy, then Brian.

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