I am trying to write a novel but it’s pissing off two women I know.
The problem they have is my villain, Abigail Williams (she’s a real person who was used in the Crucible, but given the fact that she really did exist, she’s fair game).
She will be 40 because the novel is set in 1720, as she was only 11 or 12 in the real witch trials.
At this point, the money she stole will have gotten her far in life and now she’s a wealthy widow of a merchant in Barbados.
She continues to do what she did as a child, create moral panics and mass hysteria to get innocents killed (now they are her enemies she’s framing as pirates).
her greatest nemesis is a fictional daughter of Sarah Osborne that I invented. Abigail will try to get her hung for piracy.
Thoughts?