Good morning, everybody.

Hope you 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 sort of deep and believable characters? 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 conventions. 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?

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