You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
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One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
I want my readers to find their own way.
I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me.
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.
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