Captive of Circumstances: Winner of the 2016 West Bow Writing Contest and NANOWRIMO Contest 2007
Synopsis "Captive of Circumstances: Winner of the 2016 West Bow Writing Contest and NANOWRIMO Contest 2007"
Captive of Circumstances is an endeavor; focused and motivated by the NANOWRIMO Writing Contest (National Novel Writing Month is during the month of November every year). This work, focused on the contest during November of 2007, won that contest, completing the minimum 50,000 words written during that month. Many of the chapters focus and derive from life sketch surrounding family experiences during that month. It examples writing what you know and you know your own family and happenings around you. Two tiny human-like creatures, adventure from their small, hidden world under the board walk at Bald Rock at Cheaha State Park in Alabama, sneak into the world of the giant humans around them. But the venture results in captivity, and a movement far beyond personal abilities to travel back without seeking the assistance of the giant humans. They befriend a boy; spend seven months getting to know him, secretly seeking his family's help without their knowledge, and plot a path that will return them to Cheaha State Park before disaster happens to them. Will they return to the world of responsibilities they left behind? While stuck in Calera, Alabama for that time period, they explore the humans, their strange activities, such as capturing a swarm of honey bees, to going to an elementary school to see how humans educate themselves, and beyond. It's a story of faith, trust, endurance, and hope for a better future of two small creatures in love and enduring their mishaps together, and never giving up.
