Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.