Lellow

From the novel entitled "Confessions of a Call Center Junkie: The Diary of Lellow".

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Lellow has the distinction of being my first ever novel character. When I first started writing this book, I didn’t know where I was going with the story or Lellow as a character. I just wanted to tell the tale of a call center supervisor and her battle with addiction. Much of the call center stories told in this book are real-life events that were happening in my life at the time. I was a call center supervisor myself and witnessed a lot of crazy activities during my stint, and I wanted to add that sort of realism to the character as the story went on.

 

It wasn’t until around the July entries that I knew how I wanted to end the story. What I didn’t know is how the readers would react to the character.

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By the end of the book, I was done with Lellow as a character and was looking to move on, but readers kept wanting more from Lellow. One of the things I thought of was that this is what the first book is: Lellow writes in her diary. It’s the world as she sees it. I thought it would be unique to visit some of those tales she mentioned and see how Lellow became the person she became. So, to satisfy requests, I wrote “The Chronicles of Lellow”, with this time being in the third person format so we see what’s really going on as opposed to what Lellow says.

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Being that it was my first ever book, it was fun. Lellow was a fun character to write because she was me. Well, I wasn't sure when it came to the call center stuff. She’s a flawed individual who suffers from real-world problems. Therapy couldn’t help her because life is hard. Facing life sober is hard for someone who spent a lot of her days under the influence. I wanted to show the battle within her and how just when we thought things were getting better, life would suck her back down. Depression is real, and I wanted to show what it can do to a person in a job such as hers that keeps picking at her.  

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"Life is misery with a few good moments in between. Cherish them as best you can, and don't waste those precious moments that you do have cause they are far and few in between."- Lellow's views on life.