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[> Subject: Re: Blue Beauty - thru Chap 3
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Date Posted: 04:21:06 06/13/09 Sat
>Wes, I must admit that I was expecting a much less
>interesting story beginning than you've delivered in
>Blue Beauty. This is not because I question your skill
>as an author; rather, despite your previous comments
>to the contrary, I had not been so captivated by
>Myleigh's character in the two previous novels.
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>Boy, was I wrong! The story has started off with a
>BANG. Thanks for the surprise, though that was
>probably not your primary intent.
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>I do question how rapidly Myleigh came to confide very
>personal things with Trey. He had evidently just been
>one of the rather anonymous students in her class
>until he helped get her set up on stage. It wasn't
>even until they had been talking for a bit that she
>found out he wasn't just a few years out of high
>school. For someone who had made a habit of being
>rather intense about her privacy, she certainly opened
>up to him pretty quickly. It seems there should have
>been some, evidently missing, scene that would have
>caused her to believe he would be an appropriate
>person with whom to share some of her private thoughts.
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>Also, I kept expecting Myleigh to make some simple
>comment regarding Trey's listening skills. From one
>very brief mention of her name early on, he remembered
>Crystal's name later in the conversation. With all the
>completely new information being shared, most people
>probably wouldn't have recalled the name. Did Myleigh
>have some reason to take for granted Trey's attention
>to detail?
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>In any case, I'm really looking forward to the rest of
>this novel. Thanks!
This story might well become my favorite of everything Wes has written, just because of what he is showing us in this chapter. I feel that I can understand Myleigh's feelings both onstage and afterward, in fact it's almost uncanny.
Having been a person who played and sang onstage for a decent sized audience, I can vouch for the fact that the high you feel from the applause and acceptance is unbelievable, like little else in this world and it takes a while for the adrenaline to ease off when you do get offstage. I don't know about other performers, but I do know that for me, in order to come down from that high, I almost always had to have a long conversation with someone. As well as that, I often felt that I needed to talk to someone with a new viewpoint, instead of a close friend, so I can see her choosing to talk to an acquaintance. In my case I seemed to have a knack for choosing people who did become friends later. I hope Myleigh has the same knack.
Something else I should mention is that performing live was addictive for me, so I think I can understand Myleigh's present confusion to some extent. To be honest, the draw of performing is still there even though I can no longer play, in fact I've been known to go out to a karaoke bar once in a blue moon,just to be sure I can still sing well enough to draw applause. However, the difference between a stage performance and karaoke could be compared to the difference between a five course dinner at a high end restaurant and grabbing a burger at the drive-thru of Mickey D's.
Thanks for the tale, Wes, I think it's shaping up well already.
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