“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.” - from my Goodreads profile, which I reiterate every time someone asks me why I write. The image above is also mine, taken for an Instagram challenge (I think) a while back. It is a legitimate question for me.
Because really, my writing is a means by which the characters in my head are able to tell their stories. Some of those stories make for neat novels and shorter 'tales' (because I can never keep my word count to a true short story.) Others make for a lot of notebooks and text documents which may or may not ever see the light of day. Living in a day and age where it seems people have lost any ability they may have had to separate the writer/performer/artist from their work, it can be scary to allow the character to tell their story as it happened to them. But that's the thing: If the character doesn't have a problem, the story has no plot. Stories without plots rarely make for enjoyable reading. All of which goes to say, my characters do things, say things, and have things happen to them which I would never condone one person doing to another in real life. The flip side of which is people do worse to each other in real life all the time. That still doesn't make it right or good. (Different issue, I know.) I can't not write. Even if I were to never publish anything ever again, I would still be writing. But since there are people who assure me that they love my work, I'm likely to keep publishing that which my publisher is willing to publish for me.
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AuthorAlexandra A. 'Lexa' Cheshire is the author of numerous novels and short stories published through Howling Wolf Books. Lexa is a wife, mother, cat owner, and music lover. Archives
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