Love Your Characters

As I work on my next novel, just a thought of my own to share today:

“If you strive to become a creative writer, whether it be writing novels or short stories or plays, you must become deeply involved in the lives of your characters.  You have to laugh and cry and agonize with them.  And this involvement doesn’t end in ‘off hours.’  Like it or not, they are with you 24 hours a day.  They become part of your life as long as the story is being written.”