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.
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 what 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.
Being that it was my first ever book, it was fun. Lellow was a fun character to write because she was me. Well, me 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.
