Writers Habits

I do not hear my characters.

They do not talk to me. They do not demand their story. I get something better. I feel, when I am writing well, that I am that character. It is as much my story as it is theirs. They aren’t even stories, but vivid memories. Memories that I need to put on the page as quickly as they flash by.

It sounds crazy to say, to one who is not a writer, that you hear your characters. It sounds absolutely mental to feel like you are a whole other person when you type.

This is why I struggle with anything but first person point of view.

Do you hear your characters? Do they speak to you? Or do you feel like it’s something you have been through?