Honduras in July: 2/23

I put on a pot of coffee, listened to it brew, slid into my red Razorback hoodie and grabbed a captivating novel. Listening to the rain bounce off the tin roof as the girls climbed on the top bunk to play Barbies, I propped up my feet and cracked open the book that momentarily is capturing my attention: "The Help",  by Kathryn Stockett.

For several years now, I've wanted to write a book. Not that I think I'm some super author with insight about anything, but I do want to write a book to bring perspective to something to which little perspective is shown or even known. So maybe I do think that I have some insight about something, haha, or maybe research and interviews need to happen to bring to light my desired plot. Whichever be the case, where does one start when pursuing this desire?

The first step seems to be to decide upon a plot. Well, maybe today that came to me while reading "The Help."  Here is a summary of the book pulled from a Google books write up:

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

The book, yet more powerfully,  the story -- it must contain a sense of the unknown, possibly slight secrecy. Don't we all enjoy discovering the undiscovered? Knowing the unknown?  or at least thinking that we've discovered and known. 

At least I can write here, even if it's never published. You can preview it, and even be a fan, and maybe one day own a copy of the story that I want to tell about the very thing that intrigues and captures my heart and mind each time I spend time in Honduras.