“Including Myself”

Perspective is the eternal enhancer in my life. Just about the time I think I know exactly how I feel about something, my perspective changes!

It’s not just that I have an open mind, it is that I have an imaginative one. Two words can change how I look at something, setting off a whole new chain of thoughts too delicious to let go of.

Every story needs someone who is tormented, someone who does the tormenting and someone who effects a rescue. A good writer lets the climax build until the pain is almost unbearable before something happens that turns things around. I feel a great connection to the poor injured soul who is put upon, whether because of his own actions, or the simple meanness of his tormentor.

It doesn’t matter why the tormentor hurts this person, it only matters that it fit into the story and cause the hero to come in for the rescue, or to soothe, or smooth things out in some way. In romance stories, that usually means great comforting and some sort of indication that happily ever after is imminent.

I write all three parts. All these thoughts come out of my head, the sweet ones, the loving ones and the dark ones! I am, in all honesty, all three people to some extent.

Put that into perspective.