Good morning everybody, hope you're doing well. Get ready for something deep and meaningful. Now this is something

that sounds like it may not be super applicable to you, but I promise you that it is because the question is of an artistic nature but the answer is life

as a whole. So this is a little bit of philosophy but it's a lot of strategy.

I've negotiated some pretty challenging situations and environments in my life and I've done so

with a fair degree of success, at least I've satisfied my own conscience about how I've lived

so far, so far so good. And I wanted to share with you some of the strategies or methodologies that I have used to navigate life as a whole.

So the question, and it helps if you have read my novels, it's not essential.

So yeah, just nip off, read them and then come back.

But the question was, how do I create characters? How do I create characters how do I create so deep and

believable characters that this is somebody who said that the story arc of

Rachel in my novel the present was so powerful that you know it sort of haunts him and my characters do absolutely haunt me.

I am populated by the ghosts of people I've co-created so it is a very deep and meaningful thing for me and I do have an

approach to art that is unusual in many ways I try not to be limited by standard convention. So of course

in my novel the future I go from first person to third person for the same character and

unusually enough in my novel the present there's no antagonist, right? The protagonist, right? Somebody who's working to

achieve the good, but there's no antagonist. There's no evil bad guy. Now there's

an evil bad guy in my novel, the future, which is sort of the main character,

Louis Staten, but in my novel the present there are no antagonists. Of course in my novel

almost. There are no antagonists. Of course in my novel Almost there is a protagonist Tom and an antagonist his older brother Reginald. I mean they are fighting for opposite things and Reginald. I mean, they are fighting for opposite things, and Reginald is willing to have

the entire world burn to try to destroy his brother, which is some powerful stuff in my view. So how do you create characters? Now the question of

how you create characters, I mean you probably aren't a novelist who's working to create

characters but the skill that a novelist has in

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