August 10, 2025

Lisa Adams and the Cost of Choice

Lisa is not written as a symbol of toughness; she is written as a person making costly choices under pressure.

I wanted her intelligence and vulnerability to appear together.

Her strength is not certainty.

It is her ability to think clearly while frightened, and to keep a moral center when every option asks for compromise.

Readers often ask if she was difficult to write. She was difficult in the best way: she kept demanding honesty from every scene around her.

Clive

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