The world without you
by Addison Brae
Last night I had two separate conversations with people facing life-threatening illnesses. One just learned he had a heart attack sometime in the last 10 years without knowing it. He’s determined to never have another. If the heart attack had been fatal, I wouldn’t know him, and I would never have met the love of my life. The other I just met. He just found out he’s facing a third bout with cancer and doesn’t believe he has the strength to fight again. I hope we have the opportunity to be friends for a long time.
These scenarios make me think about all these two men contributed to lives and our planet. Music, connections, friendships, laughter. Their battles make me realize what a huge impact one person can have. They make me ponder what the world would be like if I had never been born.
While fiction is much less heartbreaking, I’m toying with taking a character out of the sequel to Becker Circle I’m writing. It’s a dose of reality on the page to remove someone from their world. When I pull the character out of the romantic suspense, I realize how many lives he had touched—for the better and worse. He’s responsible for people meeting, businesses starting, love, and heartbreak. The exercise makes me even more thankful for the amazing people I know that shape my world and inspire me every day.
Who and what wouldn’t exist and how would the world be different if you were never part of it?
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Connect with Addison Brae on her website, Tirgearr Publishing, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.
About Becker Circle:
My first and only boyfriend believed I was too gutless to leave. He was dead wrong. My name’s Gillian, and I graduated Harvard early and left his hot temper and everyone else behind for Dallas. Determined to make it on my own, I land a second job bartending at the neighborhood pub smack in drama central where most every jerk in the neighborhood hits on me—at a huge price.
A week into the job, the neighborhood’s very popular drug dealer falls to his death a few feet from the table I’m serving. The cops say suicide, but the hot guitar player in the house band and I suspect foul play, and I intend to prove it. We dig deeper, grow closer, and make a shocking discovery. We know the murderer. Watch the trailer.
Buy Links:
You can find Becker Circle on Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Kobo, and Smashwords.
Cheers to Kate Hill for hosting me! Read this post for a peek into how authors can play with fate by adding and deleting characters in fiction. What the world would be like if your close friends or worst enemies never existed or without you in it? Makes you think, huh?