When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.
One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.