Nasty. And Proud Of It.

A reasonably productive day in the wordmines today. I moved forward by about 600 words penned in an hour after work. They aren’t great words – the characters had not shaped up particularly from yesterday but I ploughed forward anyway. I then went back to the start of the scene and started reshaping. Its at that point that one of the characters flickered into reality. I’m shocked to discover that I really quite like the scenes central character, even though he is going to do some horrendous things as the story develops (he is totally the ‘baddie’). This is good though, baddies you like are baddies with depth.

Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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