A week later, and I was still getting lost more often than the girl in the Labyrinth movie, except I didn’t even have David Bowie in tights as a reward for my efforts.
I, personally, never had a thing for David Bowie in tights (and some shots in the Labyrinth movie made baby-Sophie avert her eyes!). As an author, it’s always interesting to create a character—you inject pieces of yourself, but you also don’t want to make them carbon copies of yourself. One way of doing this is to give your character traits, likes and dislikes you’ve observed in other people. I’ve seen plenty of people rhapsodize about David Bowie in tights, but none so passionately as one of my best friends, Steph, who spent all of high school holding him up as the ideal man. In fact, she’s been saved in my phone as “David Bowie” since 2006, the year we met. So, this particular opinion Ollie holds actually comes from her!
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