I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.
It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.