
Do you ever feel
during the writing process that your characters start to take on a life of
their own to the point that they're directing the storyline?
My characters are 100%
their own. When the character steals the story from me, the author, I’m so very
happy. It means the story goes quickly, that the technical aspects of it bloom
into something beautifully created. It means that I feel like I’m doing far
less work. The characters are what make or break most novels for me. If the
character isn’t there, then I want nothing to do with the story, no matter how
good the plot is.
So when my characters
take on a life of their own and the story starts to take twists and turns I
wasn’t expecting, I can’t help but sit back, keep my fingers on the keyboard
and type as fast and they’ll let me type. My best writing is when the character
takes over.
Characters, to me, should
be like my best friend. That doesn’t mean I have to like every single aspect
about that. What it means is that they have problems, abilities, and talents
that I do not have or that compliment my own. Meaning, sometimes I need someone
to be very blunt with me or something I need a caring and comforting character.
In this way my characters take on a life of their own. It makes them
well-rounded to react and respond to the situations around them in ways that I
wouldn’t be able to because they’re not me. So when something bad happens or
something shocking, they should react in their own way and not the way I would.
That’s not to say there
aren’t aspects of my characters that are similar to me the author. It just
means that a lot of the times I wait it out to see exactly how my character
would react and I go with it. I don’t want to direct the story being told. I
simply want to write down what happens as it happens. I’m a recorder, I write
the transcript but they make the story. Much in the way of watching a child
grow and become their own. I can write their story for a little bit, as they
are infants and young children. But as soon as that child can make a decision
on their own, then I can only offer advice and help when they ask it of me.
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Saving people is a regular practice in a firefighter’s line of work; it is not something extraordinary or unusual. Just routine. James has been trained to respond to emergency calls and what to do in difficult situations. For James, the most important part of her work is that she knows how to run into a burning building to save a life. She is a firefighter not for the glory and not for the honor. She is there to make a difference.
Working hard has always been a common practice for James, but when her secret significant other is pressuring her to solidify their relationship, tensions start to rise. James is being pushed into turning her life upside down and inside out. She can’t stop disturbing dreams about a little girl she saved from a house fire years prior. She struggles to find balance through the pressures and stressors of her daily life, but she still can’t shake the ill-fated feeling that something is wrong.
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Nervous about her first day already, Addison realizes that adding in a one-night stand with a future employee has left her on rocky ground. Plagued by visions of a dying woman, Addison continues to cope with difficulties at her new job. She has no idea who the dying woman is, where she is, or even, when she is-and no means to find out. Addison is distracted from the dying woman and her new job when called to Wyoming on an emergency, where she discovers it's not as easy to leave her past behind as she hoped.
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And nothing can stop chaos from ensuing.
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While kids at the schools Deputy Grace Halling visits see her as the knight in blue-cotton armor, people involved in the cases she is dispatched to have a different opinion. She has every confidence in her ability to do her job and arrest criminals. She easily takes down a knife-wielding woman and a drunken combatant teenager without hesitation. Everyone—victim, suspect, or witness—has a story to tell or to lie about, and Grace is never perturbed by their tales.
That all changes when she looks down the barrel of a gun. She loses confidence in her ability as a deputy, she loses trust in herself and fellow officers, and she struggles to stay afloat as shift after shift passes. Grace cannot find her rhythm of being a deputy again. And when the Police Chaplain unexpectedly barges into her life, her personal and professional lives are flipped upside down. Grace struggles to find even ground, worrying that the next time she stares a murderer in the face will be the last.
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*Intended for Audiences 18 yrs+ -- This is MONSTER EROTICA so expect the unexpected**
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