12-17-2011, 11:18 AM
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FFR Player
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 85
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Re: You're an assassin,
Being a writer of a few novels, most of which went unfinished 75% through.. (I guess I'm bad at ending things.. Always have been.)
And a frequent reader of dark novels.
Why not go with a sort of.. first person.. inside the mind of the character tale. Have him go insane. The reader, reading through his eyes, sees things the way he does. Twisted. Wrong. Differently from society. He stops doing his assignments, becomes a murderer. Before he used his assignments to justify what he was doing, but as he loses more and more of his sanity he no longer needs it. Better yet, make him a girl.
You rarely read through the eyes of a female killer. And never through the eyes of one who is going insane.
The trick is, even though she is bat **** crazy, she is damn good at what she does. Her life as a killer and her life as a normal person start to become one, along with her imagination and reality. Schizophrenia. It leads to paranoia. She is outcasted. But doesn't know it.
She hesitates killing somebody because she pulled a fight club. The person is her. Except it's her.. Superego, whereas the id has manifested itself in her physical body. Although that takes away from the fact that the person you are killing is evil.. If you go this route they don't have to be anymore.
I dunno. It made sense in my head. And I like tales of insanity. And think one through the eyes of a female psychopath would be interesting.
Although I hardly think that was the route you were going for. Oh well. Time to write one myself. Don't worry I won't take your assassin idea.
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