I began to dream of creating a book series that could exist for the teenagers and young adults that I knew, and for all those facing a confusing, frightening future. I began to transcribe it.īy about 2006, I realized that I wanted to focus more on the teenagers in the story, but still include the pre-school characters. She handed me a shoebox containing about thirty ninety-minute tapes of what we then called the Middletown Story. In 2002 my daughter prepared to leave for college. It was a joint project, something we did together, trying to recall a magical moment. The story already existed, and we were trying to recall it, not in the exact words used before, but in an ideal form, what we really wanted to say. But we decided that we would have to start again at the beginning. Gradually this game became a story, and we began telling an episode each night.Īfter a few months, at my wife’s great suggestion, we began taping the episodes. In 1988, my nearly 5 year old daughter and I invented a game with just about anything we could find from her toy box that could help create an imaginary town and forest, and people who lived there.
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