So, how does one become a writer? I certainly didn’t wake up and day thinking “I’m gonna become a writer today!” No, wait… I did, but that’s no the point of today’s rambling.
It all starts with an idea, not with love and death as some like to say. You get anidea, and it sticks into your mind and all of a sudden you find yourselfthinking: "This is a book I'd like to read". But it is your idea, and if you don't write the book, no one will. So you start holding meetings with your co-writers and start writing the story down. It will probably go well, one scene, leading to another until you realize you have lots of chapters.
This is usually when it happens: you are on the roll, you are enjoying your new"job" and start thinking about what you could write next... And before you realize you will be planning your new book series consisting of seven books! (who cares if you haven't actually finished the first one you started writing? You can never have to many ideas, right?) Most people will consider this a good thing, it should be; at least until the momento when characters from one of your new, unwritten books start walking behind you living instructions as to how exactly you should write THEIR book. Yeah, you read well: once your characters come to life in your office, it becomes THEIR thing, THEIR book... You are just the poor soul that's gonna write it.
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