Who’s Looking Into Your Mind?

Perhaps one of the greatest fears any writer faces is that the people he knows will read his work and think to themselves, “So that’s how that b**tard thinks!” It is one thing when it is your friends reading it; they have made a choice to hang out with you. But it’s even worse when a family member does.

What are they taking away from it? A story is, in many ways, a window into the soul of the writer. I’m often asked if I based any of the characters on anyone I know. I didn’t because they are really all just different sides of myself. How else could I write it? I had to become each character in order to write them. So that makes me the good Sheriff Ingle and the evil Howard Mann both!

One can only hope that the readers, whoever they are, look past the superfiscal and see the core of the story.