"Any creative writers here with time for story advice?"
I've actually asked for story help here before and received invaluable advice from people last time so hopefully people will be equally generous with their time and ideas.
I'm currently writing a book and there's a female character who's leaving her work place (where she works with the book's central character and is his potential love interest). She's told everyone she's leaving for a really cool job overseas but I want the story she's telling people to be a lie. What I can't think of is what the truth should be...
I've been through a long list of ideas like she has a child that she doesn't want anyone to know about, illness (which I haven't yet completely written out but am not too keen about using), I considered there being something about her family that she doesn't want shared(?), witness protection program (no, no)...
The book is a sorta crime/thriller so I guess it's welcome to be a little dark. I intend this to be three books in total and have completed the first (where she introduces the lie) and am in the planning stages of the second book where I need her to come clean basically.
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