The essence of a good story revolves around the characters and the situations/messes they find themselves in. Some types of stories call for strange situations stacked on top of the bizarre, where others need little more than having the characters be in the same room.
So what's the strangest, weirdest situation that one of my characters have been in?
In terms of simply strange, one of my characters (a neurotic man named Mark Roberts) found himself exiting a book store than didn't really exist. How did he know it wasn't real? Simple really ... upon exiting the store he glanced behind him to see a solid brick wall where the door should have been.
The story gets weirder after that (in the fantastical sense of the word) as a series of coincidences compound one on top of the other. But they're all set off by that initial strange occurrence outside of a non-existent bookstore in Greenwich Village.
Of course, I tend to write in the fantasy genre, so weird and strange end up actually being run of the mill.
If you look at things from that perspective, the strangest situation any of my characters have been in was a job interview. Hardly bizarre for you or I, but out of the ordinary for Justin Ashton -- who's world goes from normal to gunfights-with-unidentifiable-creatures-in-Central-Park weird in about 2 days.
What's the strangest thing you've ever done to one of your characters?
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