I miss the people from the pages. Do other authors feel the same about their characters? They must. We get inside their heads, and that’s as close as you can get to anyone. Someone questioned this point, though. Do we get inside the heads of our characters, or do characters live inside our heads? I firmly believe in the former. There were days when I needed to write but, uh uh, their voices were silent. But then my characters were always very much in control. Of everything. It was all I could do to keep up. To a non-writer that probably sounds crazy. Think what you will.
At a book club meeting to discuss
the Newfoundland series, one of the members thought it was hilarious the way I pondered
– in the same manner they did – how a character might react in a different
situation. You talk like you don’t know these people any better than we do.
You made them up! I prefer to think of it as giving them life. Whatever.
Okay, maybe I do give my ‘creations’ too much lead and that’s why I never know
what will happen next. I’m definitely a pantser, not a plotter.
Yes, I miss the gang from Old Broad Road and On The Rock. Who wouldn’t? Sylvia Kramer, especially. It was the whole lifestyle that she’d built for herself in Newfoundland that I admired. We became quite close over the time it took me to write these novels. I might have connected more solidly with Sylvia