I originally came up with the
idea for “Portrait of an Apology” several years ago. I used to have a friend
who took care of her sister who was mentally and physically disabled, and on
occasion when she wanted to go out, I would watch her sister for her. From that
I saw how much she loved her sister, as well as how much her sister took over
her life. It’s very difficult to maintain personal relationships outside of
such a demanding relationship, and I wanted to approach that.
It was not an easy task. I didn’t
feel as though that was enough, so I felt I had to sever that relationship to
push the main character forward. In my first draft I don’t feel I was as
successful as I would have liked to have been in demonstrating that. Because I
opted for the letter treatment in my original draft, I didn’t really build
scenes for the story. That was a large part of the reason why I opted to
rewrite this story.
With that I will leave you with
the second draft to come. The concept is still the same, I just moved out of
the character to write it. I hope you enjoy it.
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