Made-up or Real

When you write a book, you plot and plan and outline and create character profiles. You create timelines. You create names for your characters and personalities. You think about who's who in every character's life and how he or she will relate to others.

You create a large scale environment and small scale environments that each character can go to when he or she needs to be alone or escape from the turmoils of the large scale environment and all the trauma that people and things bring into it.

You research to make sure things are authentic.  I was just in a gaming store yesterday and watched some gamers engage in intense online combat.

You do all that stuff -- but then, or should I say -- AND then characters take on lives of their own -- lives that you hadn't planned. They go off script and get into trouble, and then you have to save them. You can't sleep; you can't think about anything else, until you get back into the pages and save them.  So, I guess -- the writer is the superhero!

It's just like that in A Look Behind Lightning!

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