#WritersCoffeeClub 5 May -- Have you ever working through a bad experience by writing fiction?

The sarcastic, sneering high school principal, Alvin Tidmarsh in The Psychopath Club, draws heavily upon a loathsome teacher I had at the age of nine or so in primary school. This wasn't so much therapy for my experience with him, though, as firstly inspiration to create the character, and secondly to make it easier for me to write when he meets an unpleasant fate.