Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.
No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.
The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.