Reflecting on writing

Hello everyone,

I decided to use my weekly blog posting to talk about some of the fun things about writing that I've discovered recently.

When writing characters, it is always interesting where you initially think a character will go. Then as the journey moves forward, you adjust the character just like a person would. You have the opportunity to make them more real.

In the next book that I'm looking to publish in March, it was fun doing the edits because I remember the feelings and the thought process I had when I wrote the characters. They're all pieces of me and a hodgepodge of friends, families, and friends of friends that I've heard of. The new book actually has two characters that aren't pieces of me at all though, which I felt was exciting to revisit. Cael and Jarlath (enjoy those names) appear in the next book and they definitely don't have any pieces of me. However, that makes them fun. I am able to explore characters that are completely foreign to my own personal thought processes.

I encourage everyone to write a few stories and explore character development. One of the easiest things that I've been thinking about recently is that you can think of someone that you knew 10 years ago and look at them now. Are they the same person? How have they changed? What things shaped them? I'm hoping that the next book gives you, the reader, an evolution of characters from mysterious, to 1D, to 2D, to 3D as their hopes, desires, needs, and motives are fleshed out.

Thanks!