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Good ideas can come from anywhere. I came up with the character of Jack Fry when I was watching Sherlock with my parents and I had this great idea for a story about a modern-day noir detective who solves a missing-persons case for a distraught wife. I’m taking a film-and-video appreciation/production class and I got a quick grounding in film noir and I loved it all. Now, all of this sounds great, but unlucky for me I didn’t write any of my first thoughts down. That didn’t deter me from writing a mystery for this rough guy from the rougher part of town and I also learned to always carry a notebook, so that worked out. I didn’t really have a plot, but my dad always says, you can’t go wrong putting in bikinis and spacesuits.I get he doesn’t mean that literally but as just a reminder to jazz it all up a little. I thought of that and then I thought “aliens” and that sent me on my journey to find out who Jack Fry is and why there are aliens and that and some tropes and some thinking about what goes where and how it changes everyone involved and you have a story. But the main thing I like about this character is how his story isn’t over . He's still a detective and he’s still closing cases. Some of the inspiration for this hook came from a character my dad told me about that he created when he was my age named Tobias Todd. He told me he’s your classic action hero, tall, strong, leather jacket, but with one twist. He dies at the end of every story and comes back in the next one without anybody really mentioning it. Just a challenge he made for himself to figure out how the character gets out of it. Jack Fry's twist is that every case deals with the supernatural in some way. Be on the lookout for the next Jack Fry story because I loved writing him and I hope you guys enjoyed reading him.

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