My Freshman year of college I had a wonderful but very creepy English professor who inspired a short story idea that's been festering in the back of my mind ever since her class.
She looked like a sweet old granny, dressed to fit the part, but had a peculiar fascination with death that extended well beyond the realm of mere scholarly interest. One of the assignments she gave the class was to write about what it would take to drive us to kill, and then write a narrative about our act of murder in as graphic of detail as possible.
My essay turned out to be one of the better things I've written to date, even though I was squirming through the entire process of writing it. The assignment sparked an idea, though, that was somewhat different.
What if a professor like mine used an assignment like this to get ideas for inventive killings? What if there was this sweet old college professor who handed out this assignment, then used the results to hunt down and kill all of the students in the manner described in their story?
I want to write it, but I don't know if having a character too much like this professor could cause me problems or not (and I'm kind of scared to ask her about it). Would it be wise to just write the story and try to mask her identity? Or should I ask her about it?
She looked like a sweet old granny, dressed to fit the part, but had a peculiar fascination with death that extended well beyond the realm of mere scholarly interest. One of the assignments she gave the class was to write about what it would take to drive us to kill, and then write a narrative about our act of murder in as graphic of detail as possible.
My essay turned out to be one of the better things I've written to date, even though I was squirming through the entire process of writing it. The assignment sparked an idea, though, that was somewhat different.
What if a professor like mine used an assignment like this to get ideas for inventive killings? What if there was this sweet old college professor who handed out this assignment, then used the results to hunt down and kill all of the students in the manner described in their story?
I want to write it, but I don't know if having a character too much like this professor could cause me problems or not (and I'm kind of scared to ask her about it). Would it be wise to just write the story and try to mask her identity? Or should I ask her about it?
