You would think that I would have diagramed the lives, motives and phycological profiles of my characters before I began the first draft of Blood Vines. Instead I find myself doing it now, before I begin the third rewrite. While it is a bit easier to picture my characters now than I image in would have been over a year ago, it am guessing the process of writing the novel has been made much more difficult by waiting until now.
Hmmm. Good thing good logic is not a prerequisite to being a good novelist. The thing that amazed me the most as I sat down to diagram the ins and outs of these characters whom I have known now for many months was not how much I knew about them, or even how much I didn’t know about them. What surprised me the most was how much I almost knew about them.