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Although originally a gift exchange, in 2019, FK Fic Fest wa run as a prompt challenge. In honour of its tenth anniversary, the prompt was "ten years".
My original intention was to use the freedom of not having a specific recipient to write a story that I have had in mind since 2010. While it did not directly involve "ten years", I was sure I could work the words in somewhere. So I spent quite a bit of time hunting out and sorting a large number of newspaper clippings that I had kept. However, as in the previous year, I had trouble getting down to actual writing. This time, it was because the events I wished to work into the story had been hard to live through, for I had been contiguous to them, even though they had not impacted me personally. In the end, I simply ran out of time to complete a story of the length I envisaged. Instead, at the last minute, I brainstormed a different plot while walking home from my weekly singing lesson, whipped straight into writing it, and posted just before the deadline.
"Know Why I Cry" is a postscript to the Season One episode, "Only the Lonely", very popular with fans since its flashback describes how Nick and Natalie first meet. The main plot involves a serial killer who finally targets Natalie; and, as so often happens in TV shows, the climax is her rescue. In real life, of course, things could never simply end at that point. Natalie would be a witness—indeed, the key witness—in the subsequent prosecution. However, the show was old-fashioned even for its day: there was little continuity; so each episode was independent, meaning there was no follow-up. "Know Why I Cry" picks up, therefore, some months later on the eve of the trial, and deals with the lingering effect on Natalie, who is obviously suffering some measure of PTSD,
To reflect her depression, I decided to use dark neutral tones in the webpage. The main background tile is one of the many variants that I have made from GRSites' brown128.jpg, this time in shades of charcoal/brown/tan feathered with a dull cool grey. The border arround the central panel picks up these shades, with bands of warm brown marble and dark teal, edged with lines of copper. One of the teal graphics comes from Absolute Cross; and there is a decorative button from Ambographics Art.
My original intention was to use the freedom of not having a specific recipient to write a story that I have had in mind since 2010. While it did not directly involve "ten years", I was sure I could work the words in somewhere. So I spent quite a bit of time hunting out and sorting a large number of newspaper clippings that I had kept. However, as in the previous year, I had trouble getting down to actual writing. This time, it was because the events I wished to work into the story had been hard to live through, for I had been contiguous to them, even though they had not impacted me personally. In the end, I simply ran out of time to complete a story of the length I envisaged. Instead, at the last minute, I brainstormed a different plot while walking home from my weekly singing lesson, whipped straight into writing it, and posted just before the deadline.
"Know Why I Cry" is a postscript to the Season One episode, "Only the Lonely", very popular with fans since its flashback describes how Nick and Natalie first meet. The main plot involves a serial killer who finally targets Natalie; and, as so often happens in TV shows, the climax is her rescue. In real life, of course, things could never simply end at that point. Natalie would be a witness—indeed, the key witness—in the subsequent prosecution. However, the show was old-fashioned even for its day: there was little continuity; so each episode was independent, meaning there was no follow-up. "Know Why I Cry" picks up, therefore, some months later on the eve of the trial, and deals with the lingering effect on Natalie, who is obviously suffering some measure of PTSD,
To reflect her depression, I decided to use dark neutral tones in the webpage. The main background tile is one of the many variants that I have made from GRSites' brown128.jpg, this time in shades of charcoal/brown/tan feathered with a dull cool grey. The border arround the central panel picks up these shades, with bands of warm brown marble and dark teal, edged with lines of copper. One of the teal graphics comes from Absolute Cross; and there is a decorative button from Ambographics Art.
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