Ludo Stellingwerff
I use writing as a combination of reading a book I like and solving a puzzle at the same time.
My characters are the main leading forces, getting to know them is the main inspiration. At the start, I don't know where their story is leading, but during writing, I'm finding this out. In the meantime, I'm working on solving the consistency puzzle, making everything and everybody believable and logically sound.
The result is characters, living their normal lives in a future world, getting placed in abnormal situations, learning to make sense of that abnormality. And through that process, we (as readers) learn about their normal lives as well.
My characters are the main leading forces, getting to know them is the main inspiration. At the start, I don't know where their story is leading, but during writing, I'm finding this out. In the meantime, I'm working on solving the consistency puzzle, making everything and everybody believable and logically sound.
The result is characters, living their normal lives in a future world, getting placed in abnormal situations, learning to make sense of that abnormality. And through that process, we (as readers) learn about their normal lives as well.
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