A lot of students didn’t and felt the need to atone or explain in some way. A lot of students risked their lives to help others. Other than that, the reactions were similar to what we see today. In what other ways would this have been a different book if it was based off of a more current act of violence? Crook: This was the first of these horrendous school shootings and people were slow to believe it was actually happening. I would venture to say that in today's world, Shelly and others would have probably realized what was happening much more quickly. Today, unfortunately, there are far too many precedents for school shootings. In those first pages, you paint the immediate scene during and after the shootings, and how the reactions that day were so raw, partly because there was no precedent for an event like this. In this case, it’s about something real that happened closer to home than the other stories I’ve written.ĬultureMap: I was struck at your reading by what you said about writing the first 30 pages of the book. It’s easier to write because you know what it’s about - it’s not esoteric, but about something real that happened. To me, a story is more urgent and relevant when the stakes are high. Crook: If there’s nothing serious at stake for the characters, then there’s nothing to worry about on their behalf and no real reason to care about them deeply.
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This is especially so in large-scale organizational change, where you are dealing with new technologies, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, new strategies, cultural transformation, globalization, and e-business–whether in an entire organization, an office, a department, or a work group. People change what they do less because they are given analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings. She drops down hard on the cold curb and hugs her knees, bending her head into the privacy of the dark little crave created by her arms. Normally, she wouldn’t dare hang around this long on in front of a 7-11, but the curb looks high, and having recently accumulated a fresh coat of red paint, not too dirty. She has been walking around now for at least two hours and wants desperately to rest. Sucking weak coffee through a hole in the plastic lid of a red and green Styrofoam cup, Sera sports a place to sit down. 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