“Just when I figured out how to quiet the characters in my head, the multiple stories my creative muse wants me to write started screaming for attention!”
“The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche.”
“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.”
“So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.”
“I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending. ”
“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.”