Lee Allen
The idea for Alone came to me a little over a year ago, the result of several threads of ideas coming together.
With Christmas approaching, I was struck by the idea so many people hold that you are somehow under an obligation to be happy at Christmastime - which, for many, for one reason or another, is not always the reality. So I began with this concept, marrying it with my desire to write a ghost story for Christmas.
The final strand to thread through my concept for Alone was something more structural, the idea of piecing together a puzzle to finally reveal the solution. I crafted Alone as a sort of 'psychological jigsaw puzzle' - pulling together pieces of the story told from different points of view, such as through a journal or letters.
I hope the result has done my original idea justice!
With Christmas approaching, I was struck by the idea so many people hold that you are somehow under an obligation to be happy at Christmastime - which, for many, for one reason or another, is not always the reality. So I began with this concept, marrying it with my desire to write a ghost story for Christmas.
The final strand to thread through my concept for Alone was something more structural, the idea of piecing together a puzzle to finally reveal the solution. I crafted Alone as a sort of 'psychological jigsaw puzzle' - pulling together pieces of the story told from different points of view, such as through a journal or letters.
I hope the result has done my original idea justice!
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