Because I can write about anything I want, I have chosen to write a post about a book I want to write, which I have entitled "The New Underground." The book is about 3 friends named Bryce, Mary Kate and Landon who are offered $10,000 to make a drug run from San Francisco to Atlanta. The following is a small excerpt from the book (in fact, the only paragraph I have written so far) which will set the tone of the entire work. I hope that this English class will help give me some basic direction to where this book is going in terms of style and structure.
Mary Kate entertained the possibility that the most unsettling thing is to watch something you love be demonized, something that has never brought you any demons. The talking heads judge and preach from the safety of their own ignorance. Underneath their misguided concern, skewed data and pretentious writing lies a more sinister and twisted motive. For all their infinite wisdom, they continuously fail to identify demons of their own. In a sense, you must pick your poison. Choose between condemnatory mob mentality or emotional and mental displacement from society. At first Mary Kate resisted this displacement, stuck in the endless struggle against conventional thought. However, she soon learned to embrace her new-found freedom from convention, a raw freedom to explore and dream and do anything and everything the world had to offer. Bryce and Landon also shared this ecstatic freedom; they were all three drinking from the fountain of life as it poured like a waterfall from the top of a cliff. None of them knew or even cared exactly how close they were to drowning.
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