{"id":3033,"date":"2024-05-02T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T02:55:25","slug":"lbdg-commentary-1-october-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lbdg-commentary-1-october-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"LBDG Commentary 1: October 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kicking off my traditional series of author’s commentary<\/a> posts for Local Boy Done Gone <\/em>with\u2014wait for it\u2014Chapter 1!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we go there, a quick origin story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was always an idea for a sequel to Timely Persuasion<\/a><\/em>, but I never thought I’d actually write it. Years later came a completely different concept of a companion piece following the Local Boy musician character from 1969 to present, re-telling the story from his perspective while filling in a few time-jump gaps. I dug the idea enough to run with it for a few NaNoWriMos starting with the leap year anniversary in 2020 (TP1 was released on 2\/29\/08)…and another leap year later here we are!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Original plan was to kick things off when the narrator visits his father in 1969 from Chapter 14 of TP, but quickly decided it was more interesting to base it on the version of the same scene from Chapter 24 when Local Boy’s fame gets undone via some time travel shenanigans. Technically this makes Done Gone<\/em> more of a straight-up sequel than a retelling, but the 1960s and 70s scenes were such a small part of the first book treating it as an overlapping yet mostly independent story was a fun challenge. That said, there are some sly comments in the original hinting the 2002 present-day father knows more than he’s letting on I wanted to explore more. Always needing a stunt to keep writing interesting, “standalone sequel that might actually be a prequel” fit the bill and fueled my fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ye Olde Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n