Argh.

So I'm partway into the second draft of this thing -- the real "first" draft -- when I realize how strangely familiar the characters are.

Of course they're subconsciously modeled after Franny and Zooey, a book I haven't read in fifteen years but somehow managed to pull out of the recesses of my psyche for "inspiration." (There are also bits of Hamlet, but everything is Hamlet.)

When I was a kid, I couldn't draw, couldn't sculpt or sew or really "create" anything original, so I made collages. I just now realize I do the same thing with writing.