Having finished Short Form Biogs for two of the main characters that Judith meets in Carlisle, it was a lovely surprise to find that I liked them more than I thought I would.
Mr. (call me Ken) Wilson, one of the store managers started off as being a show-off and a flirt with no real substance. Fleshing out his character enabled me to find good reasons for why he is back living with his parents aged 36 and never having worked anywhere other than the supermarket since he was a school boy. I think he will turn out to be quite a sweetheart.
The other person is Maureen, the cash office supervisor. Judith resents her for no reason other than that of status. She was her own boss in Hexham and doesn’t like being told what to do. She knows she has a vastly superior intellect to Maureen but is concealing that fact from everyone so as not to draw attention to herself. Another reason they don’t get along is that they have some similar characteristics such as being perfectionists in their work. In contrast to Judith, though, Maureen has grown up in the area and has many friends, a busy social life and is a pillar of the community in the village where she lives.
As they spend most days cooped in the claustrophobic atmosphere that is the cash office, it is only a matter of time before Judith takes action to put Maureen where she thinks she deserves to be and begins to set her up and make her look careless.
A note in my journal for 17th August 2010 says,
‘The way my diary is looking for autumn I need to crack on and write a best-seller LOL. I need to look at the storyline regularly and build in plenty of tension and drama. I must decide who the reader is going to like and side with – but it mustn’t be Judith.’
Happily, my diary filled up with work, although they say the best writing happens when the author is hungry. The cash office is just one area of drama and tension.
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