![]() ![]() 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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