If you're a newsletter subscriber, you've already heard this story, but it's one that makes me smile, so I'm sharing it here, too.
I've talked over and over about how my characters come in and take over the story. I make one wrong move and they go on strike until I do it their way, not what I was planning on doing.
But it gets better.
When my characters come in, I acquire their interests. It's so weird the way it happens.
While I was writing Logan's book, I developed interest in classic muscle cars. Yeah, the person who doesn't care about cars at all, was into muscle cars for about eight months.
Then there was the character in an unpublished work who was into Polynesian dance. Guess who has an entire collection of DVDs with Hawaiian and Tahitian dance?
Now I have characters who play musical instruments and I suddenly have this burning desire to buy an electric guitar. I am not going to do it, even if I did price out the Fender Jazzmaster. Just long enough to see the prices and then I noped out of there.
Because I know the interest will die when the characters leave. Been there, done that, have the DVDs to prove it.
I also have a history with musical instruments that is lengthy and filled with fail, including acoustic guitar when I was in grade school (and piano and viola and drums and more!). I know better than to think this interest in electric guitar is mine.
So I will content myself with giving my characters awesome musical instruments and pass myself.
