How Finnigan Became: Part 2

Tony was working on a story for one of the sailing magazines and Karen was suffering from a bout of writer’s block. She thought creating a character and giving that character a name might result in the character revealing the story. Deciding on the right name was something akin to picking out a name for the baby you’re expecting. From nowhere, Althea Burnside popped into her head. And Althea did indeed begin to tell her story. Joel Finnigan was a significant part of it. But Joel didn’t speak to her the same way Althea did. Also, Karen likes to write haiku; so her prose tends to be spare as well. Tony, on the other hand, has the gift of the Irish storyteller, and a great fascination for history as well. Tony read what had become a novella and felt Joel speaking to him. “You really need more than two pages on World War II,” Karen remembers him saying. And so the collaboration began and Becoming Finnigan became.

Next time, we'll talk about Althea.

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