Karin Bishop
Since I don't have NYTimes bestsellers and the subsequent lifestyle ...
For me, it's the people I meet as I write, the characters (I hesitate to call them MY characters). I've been asked, "How do you come up with all the things they say and do?"
I do create them, initially, but perhaps it's like dressing a Barbie and placing her HERE and not THERE and then, somehow, life comes to her.
There is this strange wonderful moment where they speak on their own, take action on their own, and all I do is transcribe. I don't stare at the ceiling and think, "What's an appropriate pithy thing for her to say right now?" Because, hopefully, if I've done the creation properly, dressed her and placed her properly, she becomes alive and I just record what is said and done.
For me, it's the people I meet as I write, the characters (I hesitate to call them MY characters). I've been asked, "How do you come up with all the things they say and do?"
I do create them, initially, but perhaps it's like dressing a Barbie and placing her HERE and not THERE and then, somehow, life comes to her.
There is this strange wonderful moment where they speak on their own, take action on their own, and all I do is transcribe. I don't stare at the ceiling and think, "What's an appropriate pithy thing for her to say right now?" Because, hopefully, if I've done the creation properly, dressed her and placed her properly, she becomes alive and I just record what is said and done.
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