Today I added a mercenary group to my story. My main character reacted how everyone else would if someone demanded your purse or wallet in modern-day crime: like, are you real?
It got me thinking.
Of course, a lot of people know that crime and theives are out there, but until something happens to you that has to do with it, it doesn't cross your mind that something like that could happen to you, and their only a story that, to other people, is more than just a story.
I find that interesting. People can be so naive and self-contained that they don't notice things like that. I suppose I'm like that too. We are, after all, only human.
But as a writer, and someday author, I'm supposed to grab things like that and bring it to the light. I'm thinking in this story I'm going to stress the importance of the mercenary group to get the gears in human's mind turning, and hopefully they'll spread the news as well.
Again, we'll have to see how this goes. It's certainly going to be an interesting ride until I reach the end--if there is one.
