I wanted to touch base with everyone.
I hope everyone is doing well. After a short and much needed break it’s time for me to start writing again. As you know, new episodes of my new series The Rising River will be released starting April 4.
I have been spending some time doing research for this project. Historical accuracy is more important to this project than it was to The Distant Horizon.
Today, I had a great conversation with the TVA historian, Patricia Barnard Ezzell, who has been with the TVA for 30 years. I jokingly said to her that she’d been around for a full 1/3 of the whole lifespan of the TVA which she thought was funny. She gave me lots of information and pointed me in a direction I would not have known if we hadn’t talked.
So, I’m reading through some technical disclosures from the time the TVA created the reservoir we know as Norris Lake. When I told her about my main interest in Cherokee Lake, she directed me first to the Norris Lake materials so that I could familiarize myself with process overall. In my envisioning, The Rising River would be at the same place as Cherokee Lake, but this is fiction.
Mostly.
I don’t know about you all but I am kind of missing the cast of characters from TDH. I want to know if Lena’s sobriety stuck and if Peggy ever conceded to get help. I wanted to know what Flora was doing. I’m sure she’d continue being her hot-tempered self through anything that might come to pass.
I was listening to some music today. I have an interest in what’s known as library music, which is music developed for the specific purpose of being used in productions like film, tv and commercials. Producers could literally check them out and then pay to use what they liked. The great golden era of this music, also known as production music, was the late 60s and early 70s. It’s mostly all instrumental and the tunes sound like selections you’d hear as tv themes, commercial backgrounds and theatrical scores.
It’s kind of a generic music that’s anything but musically generic.
I came across these two tracks and I thought that either of them could have been used for TDH if it had been one of the nighttime soaps (like Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest [my fav] and Knots Landing) of the 1980s.
I tend to favor this one:
A.
But this one also has possibilities as well:
B.
Both tracks are produced by the same company, Parry Music and released probably in the 80s.
Which one do you think fits best? Please feel free to leave a comment below.
Obviously, TDH wasn’t—or isn’t—a tv series (maybe one day) but it’s fun to muse about.
I will be in touch. Thank you for reading.
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I love what you write. I have fallen away from reading and need to get back into it. 💕
Can you put photo “a” with Muzak “b”???? 🤔