I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
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.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.
When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.