The Power of Stories

Stories are powerful for any reader, but I think that they can be even more powerful for the writer. Melody MacTyre and Barnabus Rayne have been characters for more than a year, but now, as I'm writing their stories, they are becoming more than ideas scribbled down in a notebook.  They are becoming my friends, living things with lives of their own that I just happen to be lucky enough to share. Even when the creative flow doesn't come, I find myself wishing to return to their lives, just so I can see what happens next.