Animiated Narratives - Week 1

This week's theme of Character/Location/Action asked us to explore the relationship between these three pillars of narrative, and write "an outstanding character, a dynamic action and an interactive location." In response to this I wrote:

"The Blind Spy frantically clambers back onto the platform, as a train comes rushing by."

Inspired by my recent reading of Ian Flemming's original James Bond novels and the works of John le Carre, I wanted to write a premise about a spy, but I felt the idea of just 'a spy' wasn't dynamic enough. Making this character blind introduces and implies a miriad of conflicts and challenges for them to face. It creates a nice dynamic, where their disability may aid their work perhaps as an unsuspecting undercover operative, while making the more physical aspects of their career more difficult.

This plays directly into the location and action, too, as they attempt to avoid an oncoming train. How would they get out alive? How did this character end up on the train tracks? What would failure mean for their mission and the world at large?

In these ways all three elements of Character, Location and Action play into each other to create a genuinely tense and intriguing scenario.