A Sweet Story

I have attempted to start re-organizing my work.  I have a list of stories I want to write that include notes and timelines, I have some completed short stories and a few beginnings that I am not sure where I want to take it.  My binder and notebook are full, so I am looking for a new way to keep it all together.  I have a couple of flash drives so that my work is saved.

Looking through one of the flash drives today I found a sweet story that I wrote a couple of years ago.  Like the last one I shared with you, I had submitted this to a Writer's Digest Contest.  Again, I never heard anything about it, but I like it and I hope you will too.  It was a short story contest, so there is not alot of background to the story.  But it is a story where the characters have a history, so you eventually get all the details needed.  I had originally started this as a novel-to-be, but then when I wanted to enter the contest I scaled it down.  I think I did a pretty job.  I may be a little biased!

I once said that all it takes is a thought, a memory, a song, or anything really that can form an idea to create characters and tell the tale of how they fall in love.  I remember sitting down and wanting to write this one.  It came to me from a vision of a lonely girl sitting at a piano, picking at the keys, playing a very beautiful but maybe haunting melody.  That was it.  It got very long winded and detail-oriented.  I took a look at what I wrote and loved the story, but not the words that I was using to tell it.  At the same time I got some advice on sticking to the basics, write what I want told first, then fill in, I got an email about the contest.  What better way to try than a Short Story contest.

Lo and behold this is what I came up with for "David's Melody".  I hope that you will enjoy the story, and it will hook you in for the rest.  If you like what you read, let me know in the comments and let me know if you would like to see it written out novel length.  Any feedback is welcome!  Enjoy...