Recent content by Jimbeaux

Yeah. I just want to strike a balance between 'people see him as untrustworthy' and 'he's not immediately unlikable to the reader'. (For instance, in further work, I've figured out that he was once a teacher. Now... There's things teachers can do that make them looked at in askance, but most of...

Oooh. That... Could very well work. I hesitate a bit, though, because there's something inherently negative in my mind about addiction (yes, I'm very well aware it's an unfair prejudice, and I need to work on that, but that's not germane to this thread). But having him have an untrustworthy...

So, I'm writing a story in which the protagonist has amnesia. It's not 'lost all his life' amnesia, as, while that's a nice literary thing, amnesia doesn't actually work that way. What he does have is about seven weeks from his life that's missing. He's suffering from post-traumatic stress...

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Hey there! I got pointed this direction recently by one of the authors of Round Table Podcast, so you can blame them. :) I've been writing on and off for a few years, but January found me wanting to actually do this sort-of thing 'seriously'*. The big problem? I'm terrible about sharing my...