The Writing Challenge

The writer was exhilarated by the integrity of the police interrogation process.

One would expect that being led into a metal cell with a small desk, a man in suit, lit by a single shaded light bulb, and having questions barked at you would be considered an unpleasant and fearsome experience for most people, but not our brave and righteous aspiring author. She was glad of the opportunity for a truly productive collaboration with experts in their fields.

She had never felt so wonderfully doted on before; the exhaustive details wrung forth by the interrogator, the official surroundings, the recordings, the beautifully-formatted pages of manuscript that she spent hours red-lining and correcting before she signed.

She felt like someone was finally getting her story right.

And, the judicial system really knew how to make a writer feel important.

They cared just as much about word choices as she did, and their goal was both completion and precision, and in the end, everything was a matter of life or death.