Bounder
Almost all of the major characters in Rapid City are based on people I know. Some are based on individuals, and some are based on more general ‘types’ of people.
I knew I needed a character to be positive and energetic, and also an unexpected source of wisdom. As an inside joke on one of the people this character was going to be based on, I wanted to call him something monkey related. “The Monkey” perhaps.
But it wasn’t working just right. It wasn’t coming together.
So, I put it on the back burner and thought about other aspects of Rapid City. Looking at my cast of characters, I realized that I needed to get a few more of them up off the ground. For visual reasons, I needed to draw the reader’s eye up into the sky.
Flying, swinging, leaping, something like that.
Then it hit me. That high-energy positivity I was looking for…that frenetic pro-activity…it is just like pop-punk. In fact, just like a lot of the pop-punk bands I was listening to in the days that I am actually writing about in Rapid City. Pop-punk bands withy names like “Bounder”.
So many things have just come together perfectly on this project. It is a neat kind of synergy that really makes me feel like we are on the right track.
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