I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
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 go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.