I constantly hear that characters come alive when you're writing, and that they are the ones who end up taking the lead of the story and most of the times you don't realize that they're taking you where THEY want. But... that doesn't happen to me? And I'm

Hello there, writerly friend~ ♥︎

I know where you are coming from. Right now, before the story even begins— I can feel this certain pull when I think about my characters. it’s a strange sense of certainty, like the light of a torch inside of a dark tunnel. I don’t know where i am going, but I trust that the characters will take me there… and they always do.

The thing is, I didn’t start like this.

Back when I first started writing, I used to roll my eyes at the writers who claimed that they had n...