Wesley W. Walker
I have to be emotionally invested in the characters on a very emotional level, not necessarily because "I'm so incredibly profound", but because I'm prone to bouts of profound laziness, so, if I'm not emotionally invested in the characters, I just won't invest the time in writing.
Music, especially instrumentals, because vocals and lyrics are so distracting to me.
The end. I know some people consider it cheating, but I like to know how the story is going to end, so I can focus on the emotional catharsis that I am building toward and channel that into the writing of all that comes before it.
Pain. My characters are, in many ways, auto-biographical. I won't go into which character represents which emotional trauma from my psychic trauma (and neither should you), but I do believe that it would be harder for me to write characters with real pain if I didn't carry it around an abundance of my own.
Music, especially instrumentals, because vocals and lyrics are so distracting to me.
The end. I know some people consider it cheating, but I like to know how the story is going to end, so I can focus on the emotional catharsis that I am building toward and channel that into the writing of all that comes before it.
Pain. My characters are, in many ways, auto-biographical. I won't go into which character represents which emotional trauma from my psychic trauma (and neither should you), but I do believe that it would be harder for me to write characters with real pain if I didn't carry it around an abundance of my own.
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