Ref: Pages 41 and 42 of the text by Robert Olmstead.

1. Think of a first-person character who has evil intentions. List five such intentions and their targets.
   I want to kill my lover’s boyfriend.
   I want to rob the stagecoach.
   I want to frame the mayor.
   I want to steal my mother’s necklace.
   I want to sabotage my competitor’s reputation.
2. Begin this character’s story with a sentence that brings us into her mind.
   I don’t know when I first noticed him, maybe when he sat next to her at the show.
3. Follow your first sentence with a few sentences describing a small obsession.
   Yes, that was it! He started arriving early, sitting at her table, buying her drinks. He took up her time, her attention. He became a distraction.
4. Finish your paragraph by inserting evil and its object and then rebuild a sense of sanity.
   He would have to go. I conspired with the barmaid to poison his drink. Too happy was she to assist me, having run afoul of him herself. Yes, we would rid ourselves of this pest.

I want to kill my lover’s boyfriend. I don’t know when I first noticed him, maybe when he sat next to her at the show. Yes, that was it! He started arriving early, sitting at her table, buying her drinks. He took up her time, her attention. He became a distraction. He would have to go. I conspired with the barmaid to poison his drink. Too happy was she to assist me, having run afoul of him herself. Yes, we would rid ourselves of this pest.