The cast of characters in the story I'm working on have, among them all, given me a task which I greatly fear is going to test me more than I thought.
Each of them, the original eleven of them, have set forth a design for the backgrounds of their portraits.
Nobody wants just a plain jane grey or brown.
And, once again, they are right.
Because the backgrounds are the settings in which each is viewed for the first time; they are important and have meaning.
About five percent of me wishes I could make collages of photographs and just paste them on.
The other 95% is about equally divided between sheer terror, enormous excitement, and an appallingly strong determination to get them done and done right.
Which isn't to say that they will be traditional renditions or any such thing, but an interpretive rendering of what I know each wants and needs in order to successfully portray the characters, each and all, the way they need to be viewed.
It's a daunting challenge.
I hope I'm up to it.
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