Initially the novel was going to be told from the alternating first-person POV of the two main characters. I had some themes that I wanted to explore, including poverty, gender, and mental illness, which all eventually found their way into the novel. That simmered for a while, until I placed her at a run-down Scarborough motel. Two years ago I wrote a couple of paragraphs about a teenager who was a homeless runaway. My novel The Nap-Away Motel has been alive in my mind for so long now that it is hard to remember how it came into being.
I’m hoping the experience will allow me to grow as a writer. Also, I loved the kittens so much.I expect the long-form mentorship will help me to see the strengths and weaknesses of my writing more clearly. There is no perfect ending, the struggle of life continues. This is a beautiful but gritty and heartbreaking tale of love, loss, and forgiveness. Twins, duality, and parallels play a large story in this novel. The three characters form their own family within the grounds of the Nap-Away, a character in its own right. The novel tells the story of Ori (Orion/Orianthi) who has come to the city to find their twin brother Suleiman who is in exile from his marriage after facing a traumatic loss and little Tiffany who lives with a neglectful mother. The Nap-Away Motel felt like a story of my community, because that's what it is. I'm very familiar with the motel strip on Kingston, waiting for the 102 bus, and the landscape of Scarborough in general.
I've lived in an apartment building at Kingston and Midland. I went to high school at Kingston and St. They open locked doors, tumble down walls.
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