I hope that was written with a smile? - and youre not offended by my dig about gore?? Sounded a bit?? I was only joking. And gory can of course be the same as deep - Toby is a good example? (can't get my head round the romantic comedies tho)
I was wondering if the "lack" had its own smell? - not just an absence - but maybe a special earthy, mouldy smell like dead bodies (not that I know what they smell like!)
the story I did for my radio play course - the one the brought-in actors did - was also a suicide - what morbids we are! it was an idea that you could commit suicide when you are happier than ever - because then the only way is down ? One of the actors said there was a similar idea in Chinese philosophy - that fullness is bad and emptiness good: if you are empty you can still grow but if youre full..? I had the protagonist - the suicide victim's sister - slowly finding out "why" - interleaved with the dead sister's voice reading her emails telling how happy she was. Wasn't tight enough by a mile - but I still might work on the idea. As Lord Toby said happiness is boring to write about (and I think he also said happiness is hard to write about?) - which incidentally makes me think he won't bring Mitchell and Annie together - he was resistant to keeping Nina as it meant writing about G and N being happy together at least part of the time - so another couple always struggling together with what they are and what it means for their relationship would be too much?? But he is always one for surprises.









