This past JJubilee, I posted some of my sketches for the characters of Wintersong, so for this month’s Morning Realms Dispatch, I thought I would do the same for the characters of Zhara!
One thing you should know about me is that I am not a visual writer. I joke, but am not entirely joking, when I say all first drafts of my books should be titled Bodiless Voices in Featureless Rooms. If there is one thing I dislike more than anything, it’s physically describing the way anything looks, which…makes writing kind of tough, let me tell you.
Although I am a visual person, I am not a visual writer; in fact, the majority of writing starts with a voice for me. The process of writing might be like the process of painting—thumbnail, sketch, inking, painting—but the actual act of writing is a bit like watching a play more than a movie. There is darkness, a voice, and a spotlight. I can only see what exists in the spotlight.
So every once in a while, during the process of writing, I have to take myse…