48 days before - I Need to Write Another Letter

Okay, so I'm in the process of catching up on the story in the letter game I mentioned in yesterday's blog, because of how long it's been since we started this thing. So . . .

Leigh Stanley (my character) is going to be a high school senior at Paradise High School in Paradise, California. (By the way, yes, it does exist.) His English teacher, Ms. Donaldson, is having her class participate in a penpal project with an English class in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Enter Emily Donovan (my blood sister, Cassie's, character). Unfortunately, Leigh's class has one more student in it than Emily's class, and Emily is the lucky student who gets two penpals. So in addition to Leigh, he's also writing to Kat Gelhys (my not-blood sister, Anne's, character). The problem? Leigh and Kat hate each other.

That's the premise, anyway. Each of them kind of have their separate stories. Leigh gets dragged off to the remote town of Eden, Texas (another place that actually exists, though probably not in quite the way I describe it) and has to deal with a crazy society who thinks the written word is evil. Emily has some sort of something or other coming after her and has to be protected by a young man who will more than likely end up being her boyfriend, or something similar. And Kat is involved with something that involves magical forests and elf queens and something I don't completely understand. That's the thing: none of us really know where the other's story is going . . . just like in, you know, real life. Where there are actual book burning societies and elf queens, you know, that sort of thing.

Oh, and there's another fairly regular character in the story, also mine: Leigh's sister, Garrett (yes, it's a boy's name . . . long story) who tacks on a message on the end of one of Leigh's letters, and so Emily starts writing to her too.

Also, Leigh and Kat stop hating each other at some point in the story.

Confused yet?

-Matt