By Claire Booth
I heard a song on the radio
earlier this week, and I was immediately transported to a boat in the middle of
an almost frozen lake, with snow on the rocky shore and the wet tang of an
approaching storm in the air. It was a wonderful memory. But it never existed.
The song was from a OneRepublic
album that I listened to repeatedly when I was writing the first part of The Branson Beauty. My sheriff has to
coordinate the rescue of passengers from a crashed showboat in the middle of an
Ozark lake as a winter storm blows in.
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| Table Rock Lake, Branson, Missouri. Credit: Table Rock Condos at The Majestic |
I hadn’t heard any of the songs in
years. But as I listened to "Made For You" play on the car radio, everything came
back. Not the actual memory of me sitting at a keyboard and staring at a
computer screen. What I recalled was the cold and the water and the feeling of
expectancy that my character had as he boarded the showboat in the biting wind.
That’s my "real" memory, and it made me smile for the rest of the day.
What songs do you have that are
linked to a specific memory – whether it’s from the real world or the world of
a book?
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