My Characters

Things have been going good lately. My depression is getting better (for lack of a better word) and my anxiety is getting better. The therapist I'm going to is ten times nicer than all of the other various ones I've gone to throughout my life, so that's good.

Earlier today, I came across some quotes about writers, and for some reason it really sparked something in me. I realized how much of a writer I really am.

Some write for recognition (I guess we're all guilty of it) while others write for necessity. I think I write for both. But one thing really struck me: my characters. I think that the characters I create are all different aspects of my personality. One of the characters in the story I'm writing now is completely crazy; she was driven to insanity by the things done to her as a child. I think that I can really understand that, considering things that have happened to me before. I understand how she feels, and I know what it's like to completely lose your mind.

On the other had, the main character I'm writing about - not-so-coincidentally called Saruta Valentine - she is the sort-of heroine that always wants to do the right thing. I understand that. Some of the things she does though, I'm not sure I could do. She's very courageous and lovely and beautiful and kind. I kinda wish I was more like her.

I guess the thing I'm getting at is this: I may write as a different character, but it's still me inside. Every character I write from represents a different aspect of myself. Every person has a different persona that represents specific wants and needs. And I guess I have to write like that, I am a writer after all. :) It's just interesting to see all of the different aspects of myself come out in so many characters.