...you either throw them back or make lemonade. Or do nothing and get a good clunk in the head.
Life is a constant learning experience, which gives us as women's fiction authors plenty of ammo to use for a rite of passage story. This theme encompasses many different avenues of emotional pain and torment. In its most basic form, rite of passage is about a specific life transition and how the main character handles the dramatic change.
Often times, when we reach some kind of pinnacle revelation about life during adulthood, it has a way of relating back to some misunderstanding of life during our youth. To emphasize with just one example of this theme, here is one of my all-time favorite songs by Reba McEntire -- the story of Fancy Rae Baker.
Enjoy.
~Lydia
Amazing story! I'm not familiar with Reba's older stuff.
ReplyDeleteYou know, that also strike me as show, don't tell. They don't actually tell what Fancy did, but you get it.