Many years ago my dad told me a story about one of his friends Billy (
\nWilliam Black ). He told me about him taking part in a race where he had
\nto run up a very steep road\/hill\/lane while carrying a sheep over his
\nshoulders.<\/p>\n
Not long after that conversation I got to thinking about a story “The
\nLegend of Billy Black”. It never really formed into anything it was just
\nthis concept about this kid who was remarkable at everything he did,
\ngenerous to a fault, and extremely well liked by everyone who ever met
\nhim. The story would follow him as he grew up.<\/p>\n
I did an amount of searching on Google to see if I could find any high
\nprofile people with the name, especially anything written or filmed. I
\ndidn’t want to create a character that was already prominent. Nothing came up. Yes there were plenty of Billy Black’s but nothing that I felt
\nconcerned about.<\/p>\n
As part of my Dreamgate novel I decided to weave Billy into the story in
\norder to have some form of cross over. I like the idea of connecting my
\nshort stories and other works with Dreamgate. I even toyed with the idea
\nof giving Blacks identity to one of the mysterious main characters ‘The
\nTraveller’.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I started listing to the Audiobook of Stephenie Meyer<\/a>’s Twilight<\/a>. I listen while at the gym, it’s so much easier to get through a workout when you are distracted by something else; I clock watch less…<\/p>\n To my horror, very early on, a character called Billy Black appears…
\nre-doing my google search, the results are filled with Billy Black from
\nthe book and film of Twilight… and in that moment I saw the death of MY
\ncharacter.<\/p>\n![\"Technorati\"\/](\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\")
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