These types of prompts tend to make me uncomfortable, maybe because I was always taught by my culture that talking like this was boasting and that boasting will only bring me harm.
Pride goes before a fall and all of that.
That said, this is an interesting synchronicity because just this morning as I was half asleep it came into my head that I wasn’t writing either this blog or my novels for me.
It’s about them; the characters. The way I write fiction, the characters come to me and tell me their stories. Odd I know, but I swear I’m not a crazy person. (At least not too crazy. 😮) Once I’ve been introduced to these people and told their stories I try the best I can to type them out. I’m highly motivated by that for some reason. I want to make sure I don’t let my characters down. The same is true in sharing their stories. I feel called to share what I’ve been given.
How does that tie into what impact I can have on others?
I have had people tell me that they’ve been touched by my characters; their struggles and dreams, pain, fear, joy, love and commitment in the face of hardship. I understand this well because I feel exactly the same way about them. I’m right in this boat with the rest of you.
It’s less that I’m impacting anyone. It’s more like I’m being impacted and I’m serving as some kind of channel that these people in my head can flow through.
Darcy Branwyn 
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