What would it be like to write from the point of view of a character who existed solely so you could kill him/her off? What would it be like to be that character?
Meet Riley. She’s my newest character and I’m going to kill her. Oh, dear. When you read it in cold, hard print that sounds quite maudlin and psychotic doesn’t it?
I started to imagine that Riley is going about her everyday life as a character in a story. Strange things start to happen to her. ‘Like what?’ I hear you say.
You’ll just have to read it.
Suffice to say that I had several unexpected hours at the laptop this week as the story fell out with all the ease of a little kid falling off a bicycle without training wheels.
In this story, the word count is already up to 3900. The ink really has flowed…
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