they speak

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Greetings readers, writers, and fans alike! I hope you've enjoyed our fun animals facts posted online in honor of this coming Earth Day 2013! If you haven't checked out our facts, please do so. There is something that we all can learn about the wild and those creatures with whom we share this planet with. I assure you, you WON'T be disappointed!

To my writers today, I pose this question: If your stories and characters had a life of their own, outside of the written page, what would they say and how would they live? Would they speak out of the own mannerisms, character flaws, and paradigms that you the author have created for them or would they have their own voice? Could you recognize your own work if lets say the villain in one of your works walked past you in the mall, or at the job, or anywhere on the street? Would you want to recognize the character as your own or would you pass this off as a mere hallucination?  Perhaps you met this figure of your imagination and had a conversation with them on their fears, joys, passions, trials, and journeys of life. Would you believe what they had told you, given the truth that you had written everything about them from their description, integrity (or lack thereof), conflicts, beauty, etc. Could it move you or would it move you to hear what a manifestation of your mind told you about how they personally felt? Possibly incur fear in your heart? Sometimes we are the composite of our characters that we write about and weave tales, legends, and sagas of in our creative efforts knowingly and unknowingly. "You live long enough to see yourself become either the hero or the villain..." (The Dark Knight)

I believe the same can be said in both our own lives and in the lives of the stories we create. They do speak after all. What do you think? As always, I am anxious to hear your responses and welcome your comments...all