{"id":220028,"date":"2020-08-21T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=220028"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:08:54","slug":"questions-that-need-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/questions-that-need-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions that need Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want to draw your attention to this short passage from the epilogue to A Good Man<\/a><\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI went through a lot that first year at university. It changed me. So by the time we met, I was a different person than I was at the start of that year. I wasn\u2019t a nice person when I got back from America. I hurt people that cared about me. I made some bad choices. And I got worse before I got better.\u201d I chuckled. \u201cHey, maybe you might not have hated me so much the first time we met if things had been different.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cI didn\u2019t hate you.\u201d<\/p>

I gave her a questioning look.<\/p>

\u201cOkay, I did hate you. But it wasn\u2019t so much you as your gender. If you see what I mean. I wasn\u2019t big on men at the time. You know, what with\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s the part after I Chuckled<\/em> that I want to talk about today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a conversation between protagonist Paul and this (at this point unnamed) wife which takes place in “the future” about the time they first met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Wounded Heart<\/em> is primarily about that time and some 36,000 words into writing the first draft, I’ve now introduced the character who will ultimately become Paul’s wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And she doesn’t like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve not revealed why<\/em> she hates him at this point, but it’s quite clear that she doesn’t. And now all I have to do is write the one-eighty change in their relationship. So, I’m asking myself a few questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n