One Million Project issue 1 | Page 16

If you could spend time
with one character from
your story, who would it be,
and what would you do
with them? I have thousands of

Does your story have a lesson? a moral? It depends on the
story. I write many different types of
genres/settings and characters - some
are more layered than others. For instance SLICE OF LIFE from the collection
is a character study which looks at some
elements of society and how people of
different economic and personal mindsets interact with their surroundings/
other people.

characters so this is a hard question to
answer. I think rather than one character, I
would like to spend time in one of the
worlds I’ve created so I could meet lots of
them. At the moment one of my big projects is called THE HEIST and the world
I’ve created is called THE MYTHLANDS,
which is a mix of mostly public domain
characters and realms from fairytale, fables, literature, legend, myth, folklore and
even modern internet memes and real
‘legendary’ people from history who have
passed on. I wouldn’t mind spending time
in Myth Vegas, having a whiskey or two
with The Hare and The Golden Goose
while watching Elvis or Amy Winehouse
sing in the Rainbow Rooms and also playing cards with some of the high rollers like
Mr. Toad and King Babar. The joy of being
a writer is you can create your own realities!

What is your favorite part
of the story? Character bits,
where I get to focus on what makes a
character tick or develop their personality. I am also fond of the end because I
get to pull everything together. There is
a great sense of accomplishment in
making it all make sense and concluding
your story, especially if its an epic, as I
often write freestyle.

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