Malicious Gossip

Posted on by Reena Saxena

I wake up drenched in sweat.

It is one of those nights when a character, with a perspective that challenges my narrative, fights to blend in with my story but is not very welcome.

I must include his perspective, which is in stark contrast to my own. This will alter my story’s format and challenge the narrative I had initially envisioned.

I like stuff that aligns with my concepts and principles and lends credence to what I have to say.

So, I ignored this voice.

I find him getting back at me, and I need to rewrite the story to discredit him.

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27 thoughts on “Malicious Gossip”

  2. It’s not easy when a character will not behave as you want it to, but each is their own in some way.

    I always think of Edgar Bergen the ventriloquist and Charlie McCarthy, his main dummy. He always said sometimes words would come out of Charlie’s mouth which he never intended.

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  7. “damned if you do, damned if you don’t“

    thanks, I wasn’t sure if I was the only one who dreams of imaginary characters lol

    (Speaking of Fritz Perls*! I always liked his approach to the interpretation of dreams. It was predicated on the notion that being our dreams everything in them are us… in disguise, surely, but us. Rather than the more traditional, ‘what does that person/place/thing in your dream symbolize’ he’d just have his patients role-play the different aspects of the dream, not merely the ‘characters’ either, everything.)

    *lol sorry, your Six made me think of gestalt psychology

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