When developing the plot for a novel, Rick Harper remembered Karen Johnson from his graduate student days. She was a graduate student two or three years his junior taking different classes from his, and moving with a different crowd; a former graduate school buddy of his remembered that she married Jeff Smith. Karen's olive-toned skin, short wheat-colored hair, and green eyes were tailor made for the character that he built around this image, but Karen was no more than a static memory without a personality. A snapshot and nothing more To identify the character with the image, Rick called...
When developing the plot for a novel, Rick Harper remembered Karen Johnson from his graduate student days. She was a graduate student two or three yea...
