I've had some great conversations with many author's in the G+ pond recently, about the tender topic of "what's your style"
"What do you think about when writing" "How did you develop those characters" and the list goes on. I've read an inordinate amount of information on this topic too. There is so much out there, so many perspectives.
Imagine how stunned I was to realise... I worried about none of it.
To be bluntly honest, when I'm writing I don't think about the constructs and methods of writing. I don't think about character development or any of the other stuff that authors are "supposed" to be concerned with.
EEEKKKKK!!!
I can hear it now from afar!!
Authors and writers running for the hills in fright of the unwashed heathen in their midst!!
Ok, so it's not as dramatic as that, but the statement begs an explanation.
What do I think about when writing?!
I think about Discovery.
Pure and simple. Like each of us on this planet, my characters are allowed the room to discover themselves, the relevance of their own history in relation to present situations. Further to this they are allowed the freedom of circumstance and of their own perception within that framework.
Sometimes that perception is a lie that makes the gouging cut of circumstance all the more painful. At other times it is the gentle and unswerving truth that allows the false perception to be dropped.
As the author I have the wonderful advantage of being able to see the unseen my characters are living, but somehow always know.
Which brings me to the second thing I think about. Passion
