Voices In My Head

As a writer, my characters are very real to me. They are their own (though fictional) people with their own personalities, likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. They're very real to me.

Along with my characters, there are several other entities running around in my head that (for the purposes of this blog) you should probably know a bit more about.

And no, I'm not crazy because I hear voices in my heaad. I'm a writer.

Natura
We'll start this out to make me sound as sane as possible. Natura is the main character of my novel, Eventide. While she serves a purpose within the story, she also seems to be the driving force for bugging me when I haven't written in a while. When she decides she needs to bug me, she's not as... nice as her characer is. In fact, she's pretty mean.

In "normal" people terms Natura could be described as the ideas in my head specifically for this story as well as my inner guilt when I haven't written in a while.

Currently, Natura is nice and happy because I've been writing a lot.

Gwen the Muse
Gwen is my Muse. If you live under a rock and don't know what a Muse is (no, not the band) go look it up. The internet is fancy like that. Anyways. When Gwen is around and doing her job, I have plenty of inspiration to write and form ideas and be all creative and stuff. When she's not around, I tend to not be writing as much or at least having a really hard time getting stuff written.

In "normal" people terms Gwen is basically my inspiration and my drive to write.

Currently, Gwen has been hanging around a lot.

The IE
The IE is my inner editor. No, she doesn't have any fun name. She doesn't get that privelidge. The IE is locked up in her cage when I'm writing something, an only allowed to come out once I've started revision. She doesn't like the cage, and doesn't hesitate to vocalize that.

In "normal" people terms, The IE is the urge I get to go back and edit/rewrite something I'm not entirely pleased with before I've finished the draft. It usually gets in the way of progress, so I have to subdue that urge a lot.

Currently, The IE has been making some noise but she's quieting down a bit.

So there. That's a quick rundown of the most prominant people running around in my head. Along with Natura, there are a whole slew of Eventide characters and a few newborns from works like Anastasia and Another Anberlin and Living for Samantha and September as well as a slew of short story characters who like to bother me from time to time with tempting spurts of ideas (all of those titles, aside from Eventide, are novel ideas that have yet to be seriously worked on but are things that I'd really like to write. But they don't get anything until Eventide is done).

Hope you don't think I'm too crazy!

'Till Next Time

-Lauren-

P.S. Expect a Teaser (whether on Tuesday or not) next week.