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The Box
By ALongLook in The Write Stuff
July 25, 2008

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I have this box. It's about the size of a box that a case of 8 1/2 x 11 paper would come in. It is very full of stuff.

Inside the box...newspaper clippings, notes, letters -- all related to the Butts triple homicide case that I am writing about. When I first decided to write about this case and was told to fictionalize it because there was no ending (no arrest, no trial, no conviction), I ignored the box. But I kept putting "things" inside.

Now that I am re-writing, and telling the true story, the box comes back into play. I think I have a pretty good handle on the outline of the story and the facts to fill in that outline, but I can't remember everything that's in the box. I know that the suspect's mother, who is now in jail charged with murder herself, wrote me several letters. I think they are in the box.

This weekend I open the box. What else awaits?

Keep writing.

www.SonnyLong.com

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  • Ziggy Ziggy Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    Patience - you must have a lot of it if you created a time-capsule for this case. Cheers to your writing expedition.

    July 25, 2008 at 8:27 a.m.