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Don't panic. It's for a fictional character - not me.
Here's the background:
The guy is a soldier at the end of a war. There is now peace, and he's proud that he's helped achieve it.
But he's a ruthless killer, and he knows that the new peaceful world that he worked to create has no place for him. The world will be better off without his type of person. He also has a disfigured face from a war injury (in a pre-plastic surgery era) and it isn't clear what kind of life he could possibly have as a civilian.
He is meant to be going home now, and leaving the (ex-) war zone.
It is a farewell letter to a civilian friend, and as we read it we realise that it isn't a 'good-bye I'm going home now' but it is really a suicide note... although that isn't ever explicitly said.
I never write in first person, and I'm having trouble writing this without being horribly melodramatic.
Any suggestions or tips on writing something first person like this?
Mac
Here's the background:
The guy is a soldier at the end of a war. There is now peace, and he's proud that he's helped achieve it.
But he's a ruthless killer, and he knows that the new peaceful world that he worked to create has no place for him. The world will be better off without his type of person. He also has a disfigured face from a war injury (in a pre-plastic surgery era) and it isn't clear what kind of life he could possibly have as a civilian.
He is meant to be going home now, and leaving the (ex-) war zone.
It is a farewell letter to a civilian friend, and as we read it we realise that it isn't a 'good-bye I'm going home now' but it is really a suicide note... although that isn't ever explicitly said.
I never write in first person, and I'm having trouble writing this without being horribly melodramatic.
Any suggestions or tips on writing something first person like this?
Mac
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