Being an author isn’t always easy. Especially when it’s your side hustle. You still have your day job to juggle and still must turn on your creativity. To create those characters, I gotta get into their head to be able to express emotions even when I’m not feeling those emotions.
Writing is a lot like being an actor; you must become one with the character, which means connecting with them differently. Instead of using your voice, you create with your brain and the keyboard or pen. Sometimes my hand speaks to me one way while my mind tells another. So, I allow one of them to lead, and often, that takes my writing in a direction that my hands take me, and there are times when it is not the direction, I had planned on going, but I accept it. I don’t fight it. I figure somehow, the story will weave in the direction I need to twist, and I’ll eventually see the light at the end of the tunnel.
That’s what happens often in the stories I create and what wasn’t supposed to be a series, or a sequel somehow evolves into one. I often find it amazing how my mind knows what it wants to do even though I disagree. But at the end of the day, writing is my passion, and I have the best job in the world.
This is a gift God has given me, so I’m going to accept it for what it is and allow my brain to do what it does—create.
