tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post1263253638663835174..comments2024-01-12T11:26:35.176-05:00Comments on Working Stiffs: Revenge, Writers' StyleWorking Stiffshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270595837074553752noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-31885346940227428802007-11-07T09:06:00.000-05:002007-11-07T09:06:00.000-05:00You are so right! I own a B&B. Guests wonderful. L...You are so right! I own a B&B. Guests wonderful. Lorianne (yes,real name) wanted to have wedding there, me plan it. I lined up florist, caterer, menu, cake, minister. Many hours on phone & email with Lorianne & others. Oddly, she wouldn't send deposits! Two weeks prior to wedding day she canceled, moved venue elsewhere. Payback - somewhere in my files there's a story about a heedless alcoholic named Lorianne who's murdered by a fed-up client. Hahaha! Felt much better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-67537982953093226242007-11-07T08:33:00.000-05:002007-11-07T08:33:00.000-05:00I haven't actually used anyone in a book, yet. I ...I haven't actually used anyone in a book, yet. I guess that some of the things that happen to people on my books I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I do occasionally take comfort in the fact that I can wish a person dead and know that it will come to pass -- it may take 50 or 60 years but, sure enough, they'll die. Yikes. Maybe it would be better to just off them in a book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-75934239268068051092007-11-07T07:27:00.000-05:002007-11-07T07:27:00.000-05:00Tory, I think it's wonderful therapy. I carried ar...Tory, I think it's wonderful therapy. I carried around a lot of anger and bitterness toward a former friend who had screwed me over royally. After I turned him into a charming, back-stabbing villian who got killed in the end of a story, I was able to let go of all that anger. Now, if I see him on the street, I can smile smuggly, knowing that I GOT HIM even if he doesn't know a thing abut it. <BR/><BR/>Of course, knowing that this guy also spend some time in a very real prison recently helps, too.Annettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02755947919433555176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-71152567074667752312007-11-07T07:21:00.000-05:002007-11-07T07:21:00.000-05:00Annette, yes, guilty as charged. I had a boss year...Annette, yes, guilty as charged. I had a boss years ago who was such an ignorant bully it was making me crazy just to go to work. So ... (evil grin here) ... I used the anger I felt and turned him into a villain and wrote a book around it. Revenge, however, is a dish best served cold, so on my final rewrite I wrote him completely out of the book - there is one tiny mention of a bit of him for my own selfish pleasure, but other than that he is gone.<BR/><BR/>Hey, anger is a tool to be used, right?Martha Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05176667737130435985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-24182466568408316712007-11-07T06:39:00.000-05:002007-11-07T06:39:00.000-05:00Once a friend of mine was talking about her ex-hus...Once a friend of mine was talking about her ex-husband, and I suggested I could write him in as a character in a book and kill him off. <BR/><BR/>She looked at me oddly and changed the subject. I guess I have to recognize that mystery writers' minds are different from other people's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com