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?

Writers Habits

There is a men’s medium, cool, blue sweatshirt that hangs in my closet. In truth it it more often crumpled on the floor, but somewhere in my creative clutter I have it. It’s long and soft and most importantly inspiring. There is something about this oversize coat that comforts me and lulls me into another world. This is my uniform. This is my writers coat.

What is your uniform?

Why Young Adult?

I read and write and love the YA genre because the character’s feel and respond so passionately.

Everything, in your youth, effects you deeper. Your world is your high school, and it’s a small world where your pears do not often welcome uniqueness. There is something sad and beautiful about that time in your life. It must be appreciated.

A good YA author captures that in their books. The embarrassment, the sorrow, the utter joy from a first kiss. That passion. That unfaltering emotion. That’s why I love YA. I hope to bring that passion to my pages.

That, and I still feel like a kid most days.

Why do you love YA?