Fundamentally this entire trilogy began with the spark of the imagery in this chapter.
[More in-depth discussion of the chapter takes place below.]
If you've been following my author's notes you know that I've taken a great deal of inspiration from the Broadway version of the musical Chess. This began with a decade-long mild obsession with the song Someone Else's Story [ music | lyrics ].
When I began to contemplate Tex's origin story after my first viewing of the series it struck me how well this so...
Fundamentally this entire trilogy began with the spark of the imagery in this chapter.
[More in-depth discussion of the chapter takes place below.]
If you've been following my author's notes you know that I've taken a great deal of inspiration from the Broadway version of the musical Chess. This began with a decade-long mild obsession with the song Someone Else's Story [ music | lyrics ].
When I began to contemplate Tex's origin story after my first viewing of the series it struck me how well this song fit her situation--not in a figurative perspective, as the song was originally meant, but from a literal one. The contrast of that captivated my imagination and the seed of that idea eventually grew.
Though what has come out of my original draft has greatly changed this image never left my mind and it is fundamental to my telling to Tex's side of the story.