I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.
The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.
When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.