Taking a risk
Photo by Liam Simpson on Unsplash Have you ever written a character that your reader has fallen in love with? For me, it was a stuffed lion called Sam. He'd been abandoned at a bus stop and found by a lovely woman called Auntie Deller, who took him home and gave him hot buttered crumpets. I shared about him in an ACW group that I was in at the time, and the person running the group adored Sam, and has often asked whatever happened to him. For a long time, nothing. He came to life as part of a character building exercise, and I left it there and went on to writing about elderly ladies with a taste for murder and other delightful tales, but Sam refused to stay away, and now he's going to be shared with the BBC. Don't get too excited. I've submitted the letters I wrote as an idea for an animation series. A lady who takes in abandoned toy animals who come to life. It may not come to anything at all, but as they say, if you don't try, you'll never kn...