#flightofthefearless

book: I’ve never read it | I need to read it | I hate it | it was okay | I loved it | asdfghjkl

Exactly! And they become like your best friends. Sometimes, when I’m feeling down and none of my real life friends are around, my characters always seem to perk up and give me a pep talk. Depending on which character it is, it could vary from “Don’t worry, you can do it’ to “Suck it up and quit your bawling” Then one will scold the other, I start laughing and suddenly I have dialogue to write down.

A fantastic quote I found;

“Novels are like marriages. You have to get into the mood to write them — not because of what writing them is going to be like, but because it’s so sad to end them. When I finished my first book, I really felt like I’d fallen in love with my main character and that she’d died. You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish, then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you’re supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff. Characters in stories are different. They come alive in the corners of your eyes. You don’t have to live with them.” — David Foster Wallace.

It just speaks volumes.

Same here, they’re never quiet. And very opinionated, they’re always giving their thoughts on situations and making me zone out more often then not. But I don’t know how I could deal if I didn’t have them running around. We’ve become very comfortable with each other.

Good to see it wasn’t just me though! Most writers I talk to say they don’t have that problem and I’m like, ‘But you’re missing out on the best part!’