Fiction Writers Are Entertainers First
They live out loud through their stories and characters.
They are conversationalists who unknowingly show you their personality in every chapter they write.
They write their experiences all over their books. Often their imagined experiences too!
They have eyes everywhere, and always have, since they can remember.
At age 4, I had no clue what the word ‘observant’ meant, but parents and adults and teachers who had never met, said that word repeatedly to me.
‘I felt like I was on mute when I tried to express what I saw in spoken words. It was all too beautiful and overwhelming to me.’
Ann Beaudet
It was a sin to keep it a secret.
‘I retreated to writing fiction to share what I see and how I feel.’
AnnBeaudet
Novelists unknowingly tell you their world views through their stories, and their characters’ words and actions.
They show you the actors they’ve seen on the stages of life they have been on, and the parts they themselves have played on the stages they have entered and exited.
They are blessed with vivid imaginations that force them to replay all the people they have been at different stages of our lives – a child, a student, a lover, a wife, a mother, an entrepreneur.
They want to show you all the lessons they have learned by transporting themselves into the bodies of other people of different genders and ages.
They never take themselves too seriously.
They are their own comic relief, seeing the one morsel of humour or light that exists in the middle of a tragedy, or the bittersweet sorrow in the happiest moment.
They do what they do because it’s fun, and it comes naturally to them, and their heads are so full, they have to express themselves or they will burst!
First of all, novelists are entertainers, wanting you to feel what they feel, because moving your heart is the most powerful thing anyone can do.
Sometimes we are in the spotlight, sometimes we are background supports, but we always love you, the audience!
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