More about my story…

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Works in progress are ever evolving.

Sometimes, when we start with an unclear mind about how it will end, the pieces eventually fall into place.

When you start with exactly what is supposed to happen in the end, yes, that good old revenge, retribution, payback, call it what you will, it’s not so easy.

Especially when you have a revolution on the side.

I was going to make it far more involved, but the idea of writing a thousand pages, because that’s what it would take, and creating hundreds of characters, is far too time-consuming.

Over halfway, we’ve etched out the characters, who they are, what they supposedly stand for, and what they may do when the time comes.

We had a man of honour in a corrupt regime

We have the puppet president, who is getting less useful by the day

We have the man behind the man behind the corruption

We have an international conference whose subject matter is totally at odds with the state’s ideology

We have a VIP who is temptation personified dressed up as a lawyer

We have a free spirit who is anything but what she seems

We have an axe murderer pretending not to be an axe murderer, but the indispensable assistant

We have a broken spy trying to get through what he’s rapidly recognising as his last assignment

We have mercenaries, just the sort of cannon-fodder any revolution needs

Others are the supporting players

The conference is serious stuff

The revolution is very serious stuff

Why then are we fixating on who the protagonist may or may not have a liaison with?

Simple, heavy stuff is uninteresting, exploring the human condition?

Way more interesting…