What do you do when your male lead gets framed and thrown in
jail? In the Middle East. You write him out!
I knew I was just one of 65,000 people who signed Farzan's Change.org petition, trying to bring awareness and justice to his plight. But
as a shamanic practitioner, I wanted to not only feel better about the situation,
I wanted to lend the power of positive intention. So this past summer I places
his character in prison, and wrote about it every day; waiting for the solution
to show itself organically in the writing. In my story it came from a bit of
deus ex machina. (I’m not spoiling anything by telling this!)
Luckily in real life, he was pardoned by the Sheikh of the
United Arab Emirates; a benevolent sheikh, unlike the one in my book…
Life can be just as strange as fiction.
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