Characters
- Strong female character- a matriarch is important. An old wise woman, a grandmother or some other motherly figure.
- The drifter. We want the reader to feel ambivalent about this character. "Like feeling mad at the nail in the road that causes a flat tire." A blip in the story. Not a main character. He is the main catalyst for conflict within the story. The reader will not know much of the drifter's history. Backstory will be developed, history not. Pick up history secondarily through details of the story.
- Boyfriend. He represents "the escape" from this town. He needs to remain almost mythical. Perhaps the reader never meets him directly. An idea is Habitat for Humanity, that is his link to the town and the daughter.
- Mythical appalachian town. Draw a map of the town.
- Man is born and raised in town
- Man leaves town
- Gets married, has a baby
- wife dies
- broken, returns to town with daughter
- Man becomes a minister in the town, a pillar of the community
- Drifter comes into town
- Drifter knows minister from life in previous town
- Drifter knows something that the minister did
- Drifter attempts to blackmail the minister
- There is a heated confrontation, the daughter interrupts
- The daughter shoots the drifter
- The minister takes the blame for the daughter and attempts to buck the charges as self defense
- Through the investigation, we discover what the minister was guilty of
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