
On Violence and Literature
Read this on galpod.com. In my creative writing course, we did an exercise. Last week, we created a character. This week, we had to figure out what is that character's worse secret and start writing a scene in which this secret is revealed. My character is Nate. He's 32, works as a software developer in Shoreditch, and lives in Hackney with his fiancé, Anna. And I wrote that his worst secret is that he fantasises about killing random people in the street. This didn't strike m