setting for the novel...

the main setting takes place on a piece of property above the river on some bluffs with lots of trees and flowers and a huge garden fenced in by a fence they built to keep some critters out. Three old schoolbuses are organized together to create a three part dwelling: one bus is hers, one is his, and then the community bus where there is a big kitchen and lots of hanging plants and a nice old oriental rug well worn but expensive that they got at an auction for only twenty bucks. Each schoolbus has an awning built over the front door so they can go outside and sit even when it's raining. Each bus has a small woodstove and when all three are cranked up in the coldest cold of winter everything inside is toasty and warm, very cozy. The floors of the buses are hardwood that they installed little by little from scraps at people's houses where they worked together sometimes doing odd jobs when they could.
The river property is in the midwest, in Missouri, in Washington county. The name of the river is Big River. They have a small boat with an outboard and two canoes and a kayak stored in a shed they built away from the schoolbus homes. the year is 2010. They have lived at the river for five years. There is lots of background about the stories of each of the characters' lives, but the main part of the novel is centered around what takes place at the river and then of course the ending is tragic and sad but beautiful nonetheless. People read it; people watch the movies like that. It's possible that I have been sitting on a gold mine with some of my love stories and just didn't take them seriously enough to try to finish them and send them out. Those days are about to come to an end. Next I have to sketch out some plot lines and some character sketches to flesh out the people's backgrounds. Plus I have to come up with good names for them and a name for the town they go shopping in. Both characters are disabled, too, so there is a political element to the novel in that they face stigma in society for their disabilities so that contributed to why they set up their lives at the river. So exciting and so much more to come!!!!