Missing them already

It feels to me that bringing characters into being is similar to having children. Writing about them is like nurturing them as they grow and trying to mould them into what I want them to be. When I start to develop the characters, quite often they don’t go the way I thought they would; just like children, they have minds of their own, with their own ideas.

When I finish my novels and put down my pen, I have no further say in their lives as I release them into the world within the pages of the completed books. I still see them for time to time when I open those books, but there is nothing more I can do for them.

This is where I’m up to right now with the characters I shared my life with for the last few years in ‘The Chronicles of Midway’. My series is finished, my characters have fled the nest, and I miss them already.