Bittersweet Candy Bowl

39. Love My Way, original chapter posted 6/27/07

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Author commentary

Veronica: Oh, Tess. When do you not hold deep dark secrets?

It’s interesting when you work with someone else’s character. When Tess was given to me, she came with a lot of background information, like her relationship with Roger, her reputation at school, and I was there to pretty much fill in the blanks and adjust her to the setting/my characters. I didn’t really want to rewrite what was given to her, you know? Otherwise why don’t I just make an entirely new character? I sought feedback from Lily how I was depicting Tess, and it was a fun exercise, honestly!

I do like how in this rewritten version, the rumours sound more like genuine rumours rather than people infodumping garbage onto Paulo. Now it’s more confusing and not very reliable! You don’t know what to believe!