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Featured Story for the month of August 2009 - Someone's Miracle
Kentuckychickrk:
--- Quote from: mare on August 03, 2009, 06:30:27 PM ---What made you chose the characters you did for this story? Aaron, the Law and Order people etc...
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As far as Mark and Lauren, their characters were as simple as choosing names (Mark in memory of a young man who gave the gift of organ donation and Lauren was just a name that I liked).
At first I thought about making Nick the character who would be receiving the liver, but I decided to go with Aaron instead (and I'm glad that I did) so that I could show the perspective of the other family though Nick and because I really wanted to have a donor close in age to the recipient character.
There is one part in the story where I use quotes from Grey's Anatomy and that is a little shout out to a close friend who, after being in the hospital very sick for a little while stated that real life is not like Grey's Anatomy... there are no hot female interns. :P
The Law and Order guy is just the guy that I thought would play a good Mark Grant in a movie... lol.
mare:
Oh lol sorry about that. I got all confused with the Law and Order thing.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Kentuckychickrk on August 03, 2009, 08:58:29 PM ---At first I thought about making Nick the character who would be receiving the liver, but I decided to go with Aaron instead (and I'm glad that I did) so that I could show the perspective of the other family though Nick and because I really wanted to have a donor close in age to the recipient character.
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I was gonna ask you that question too, why you chose Aaron instead of Nick or one of the other guys, so I'm glad you mentioned that. I think it works well the way you did it. I'm not an Aaron fan, but because it was from Nick's perspective, and you showed their brotherly bond, I felt for both Nick and Aaron.
mare:
Since this is such a heavy topic, have you ever found yourself getting chocked up or having to step away from writing this when it gets too intense?
Kentuckychickrk:
--- Quote from: mare on August 05, 2009, 03:58:15 PM ---Since this is such a heavy topic, have you ever found yourself getting chocked up or having to step away from writing this when it gets too intense?
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To a point, yes. I did get teary eyed a few times because it brought back memories of the conversations from class (during which a dry eye could not be found in our class of 45 people), and there were a few times while writing the story where I thought about giving up because it just seemed too depressing.
Of course, it is depressing. But it's also a fact of life, one that families deal with, in reality, on a regular basis. So in the end I decided to continue the story, not only because it's something I am passionate about, but also because it's one of those stories that needs to be told because regardless of whether or not the characters are real or are based on real individuals, the situation definitely is as real as it gets.
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