I just had a conversation with a lady I work with at the day job. A couple of weeks ago she asked about my books, and I gave her two. When I asked her what sort of story she’d like, contemporary, paranormal, kinky, romantic, she said it didn’t matter she just wanted to see how my mind worked.
Ack! really???
So I gave her one copy of Primal Male, and one of WICKED. Seemed like a good way to go to show some of the variety I offer as an author. She couldn’t get into Primal Male,but she said she really enjoyed Wicked. Yay! That was the end of our conversation about my writing until today. She called yesterday and I didn’t answer my phone or return her call until today, and she says…I figured you were off having some fantasy and writing about it.
I was like yup.
Now, this is someone who sees me, and works pretty closely with me, 5 days a week, and I have to say her next comment surprised me. This isn;t word for word, but it went something like this…”…when I was reading Wicked, I was thinking no, this isn’t Sasha, this is from her imagination, this isn’t from her experience.” Then she continues. “I know you, and I just couldn’t imagine you having these experiences.”
So we started talking about writing, and I said for me it’s like reading. I don’t plot or plan much, I just start with a character or an idea, and then start writing. And it’s really hard to get me started but once I’ve started and I get into it, and into the characters heads, the world around me recedes and I don’t want to stop. There’s many times when I’ll read what I wrote the day before (Because I tend to edit as I go) and I’ll be like…“I didn’t write that…When did that happen?” because whenI can really get into it, it becomes almost like I’m channelling the character, and I really do not think at all.
Yes, I know it sounds bad to admit it, but I know I’m doing a job writing when i’m not thinking. 😀 However, it still surprised me to hear that someone who spends so much time with me, in a day to day environment, read Wicked and thought it so very different from me personally when others I know totally see me in it. I decided it’s because where I work, when I’m at work, I’m a manager and I have responsibilities, and while I laugh and have fun, I do take them seriously.
Am I me when I’m at work? Hell, yeah! Am I also me when I write? Hell,yeah! Do I put some of myself into every story? Fuck, yeah!
This is what makes people, and creating characters and sharing their stories so freaking awesome. People are multidimensional…and characters must be as well.
Get it?
