Hello! I'm Alice Wright. Or rather, my pen name is Alice Wright. If you want my real name, I suggest you go to the nearest bus stop, wait for a bus, get on said bus, and then ask the bus driver what her name is. That won't be me, but at least you'll have the satisfaction of having tracked down someone's name.

Currently, I am working on description. That is because primarily I'm a playwright, which means I usually end up writing dialogue and leave the color of the curtains to the set designer.

So I've had plenty of practice with how people say things. What I need now is how people look, move, decorate, and percieve their surroundings.

Good luck, right?

Oh, and plot. I musn't forget plot. Now you may be wondering, how can you be a playwright and not write plot? That's because I write absurdist theatre. If you don't know what absurdist theatre is, go watch Waiting for Godot or Rhinoceros. That depressing, crack-induced atmosphere? That is what I write.

Don't get me wrong, I love it. Ever since I saw Endgame at my favorite theatre, I've been obsessed with it. However, I realize not many people share my obsession. In fact, very very few people share my obsession. About one in fifty even tolerate it. The other forty-nine think I'm insane-- and they're probably right. Sanity is highly overrated in my view, but people tend to find it more appealing than insanity, so I'll oblige and try to control my tendency to write about flowerpots falling from the ceiling. No promises though.

So as a recovering absurdist, I'm trying to channel my creativity into a format that is more acceptable to the public than flowerpots and more acceptable to me than the action/suspense/nudity novels in airport bookstores.

My compromise: character study.

Currently, I'm focusing on Javert. That is because I find him well... amazing. Blame the Sherlock Holmes obsession I had when I was twelve and my dad's habit of explaining to me both how the criminal mind operates and how the tricks work that "bad guys" use to fool the law. And teaching me how to spot these tricks... at least with his help. I'm not the best student when it comes to criminal justice.

Not to mention the wonderful dualism of a man who believes he's doing the right thing, when actually he's doing the wrong thing. Of a man who believes in justice but not in mercy, and who has his reasons for believing that. Think about it. He's seen hundreds of criminals, if not thousands. Quite a few of them would have been hardened. Those who weren't would have been pretending that they were so that they don't get beat up by the hardened criminals, themselves becoming hardened through the process. Now what do you think the person watching them is going to think? Perhaps that people never change? That those who are bad are inherently bad? That his duty is to protect those who are good from them? That the way to do that would be to ensure that criminals stay in prison?

To anyone who doesn't know that this is not truly the case, this seems like a perfectly reasonable, even noble, course of action, bound in what is an all-together noble man. He is honest, perserverent, loyal, consistent, and intelligent. How is he the "bad guy"?

Because this is not the case. People can change. Maybe not all of them, but many of them can become functioning parts of society again. Take Jean Valjean, for instance.

Javert doesn't understand this. When he does become close to understanding, he is so thrown that he commits suicide. I consider that a tremendous waste. If Javert was being "evil" by not giving others the chance to change, then it is twice the sin to not allow him to change. Thus, my fanfiction focuses on what would happen had he been given the chance to adjust his point of view.