A loaded question…

TANGENTS!

If you ever need anyone to stall long enough so you can make a quick exit, give me a call!

What is strange though is that I fill my life with people that often go off on tangents. So we could talk about one thing and end up discussing another, and so on and so forth.

I believe that my ADD has something… a lot… everything to do with it. I see it all the time in my writing. I’ll have one story line that changes from idea to the next. It’s almost like magic. I mostly start with just a character, but some times it changes to being a single sentence and the story an grow from there. It’s difficult for me to write something with a lot of perspectives from various characters.

Yet, I love The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, and It. All of these have different perspectives from a majority of their leading casts. LOTR follows main story lines with Frodo and Sam, Aragorn and company, and Merry and Pippin in their various trails during the War of the Ring. George R. R. Martin does an excellent job of keeping the story going through the various eyes of his main protagonists/anti-protagonists: Eddard Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, Dany Stormborn, Catlyn Stark, Arya Stark, etc. While the characters in It share a common enemy, Pennywise the Clown, each suffer their fears alone: Bill with his dead brother Georgie, Ritchie with the Wolfman and other horror movie antagonists, Eddie with the leper, Beverly with her father, Mike with the giant bird, etc.

But I guess the reason why it is difficult for me is because each of those writers have a different style than my own. Style is something that everyone, especially writers, have that is different, and I suppose that you could say that everyone as well. Style is what makes each person unique. Like my style and sort of mythos of my writing is more of a character driven plot. I want my characters to feel real and to know that life always throws us the unexpected wrench into our gears.

And do you know what really grinds my gears? People who drive fast in a passing lane but drive at a snail’s pace on a double line.

Needless to say, I feel that I do tangents and transitions really well.