As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds.
The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.
To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
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 don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.