In the first Street Stories novel, Painted Black, I was able to get inside Sidney Cole’s mind by writing chapters from his point of view. However Lily’s father, Lou Becket, isn’t one of the characters I’m telling her story through.

When I ran up against a road block writing one of Lily’s chapters, I figured out it was because I didn’t have a handle on her father’s motivation. So even though I know this scene will never end up in the final version of Cry Baby Cry, I wrote it anyway.

Click the quote below to read more about this man and why she ran away from him.

Their cause was righteous, therefore God would protect them. The Lord had laid this mission upon his heart, to save these misled sinners and set them on the true path.