If I get it all down on paper,
it's no longer inside me, threatening the life it belongs to...
--Anna Nalik, "Breathe
Every piece that I write consumes me, especially when it comes to my fiction. When I'm working on Bands or JitO, my body moves with the story, and I lose myself in the emotions that the characters are feeling. When I become one with my characters, even after they've acquired a life of their our, I can write so much more easily what they see, fell, and think.
This makes stepping into someone else's shoes all the more literal. In the depths of my writing, I've become Katie, Kris, and Paul. I've felt their words pounding into my brain and the pain when I can't write their stories down fast enough.
I live for my character's sakes. As Natasha Bedingfield references in "Unwritten
I write their stories to save myself, my sanity, and my life.