Anna Speaks

Anna Speaks is my work-in-progress, a novel. I began writing it in Fall 2006. It has been an exciting and valuable process for me, and this has been the first time I've ever been able to use the advice "write what you know" to my advantage, though only one of my major experiences is involved in this story.

I agree that people who honestly haven't a clue what something's like shouldn't write about it without researching, of course, but I do not believe that one has to live through something to be able to write about it. If I were to research every topic involved, I'd have a mountain of things to read. If I were to interview someone for everything, just the same, I'd have far too many people to talk to.

So maybe I haven't lived it all; I certainly don't know it all, and I don't pretend that I do, as some people like to think. I don't claim to be perfect in any way. Writing is a learning experience. You needn't know everything there is to know about something to write about it. In fact, much of the learning should happen along the way, watching how characters react and interact with one another in the situations you've dropped them in. Plot, in the case of a story like mine, should be driven by the characters, not the other way around.

If you couldn't guess, Anna Speaks is heavily centered around characters, their thoughts, their pasts, and their feelings. I'll be honest with you--if you're a fan of exciting, event-driven plots, be prepared to hit the browser's back button. You probably won't like this very much. You'll find it boring.

This is an internally-based story. It doesn't involve epic adventuring, and as much as I love a good battle scene, you won't be seeing any of that, either. I've found, though, through both writing and my own thoughts and experiences, that the mind is far more vast, far more powerful, and far more mysterious than the world is or will ever be. That fact, I think, may have been what sparked the inspiration for this story.

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