I enjoy the adventure of entering new worlds and letting characters I just met develop to live out their stories. Some are murders, some are children's stories and so on. I prefer not to follow a formula for plotting or a pattern to character development. I enjoy watching the people come to life and their worlds become realistic places a reader can see and may want to visit. As Anne K. Edwards, I enjoy being an author, but Swamp Thingy, my muse, has only complaints about the work required of him to get a tale told.