February 5, 2016

I’ve been thinking about this a lot.  Mostly I think about it in terms of characters.  To breathe life into a complete invention, there needs to be a back story,  if only in the author’s head.  It’s a reverse engineering of sorts.  We go backwards to justify the present.  We see the parts to justify the whole.  But what of real people?  What would we be…who would we be, if we didn’t live where we do, have the families we have, have made the decisions we have made or been required to do the things we have done?  Who would we be? Writers play with theseRead More →