One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're doing a series, you're really in a zone. You're thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it's just as natural as breathing to be having ideas and thinking about what they're thinking about.
When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.
I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.
I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.
I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.