Sometimes my characters show up before the story does.
She feels like someone who’s lived through things she never asked for — the kind of quiet strength and buried memory I write about in my books.
I don’t know her full story yet, but I know she carries it in her eyes.
Some stories don’t just entertain us — they rescue us.
They pull us out of places we didn’t know how to escape.
They remind us that imagination is a kind of survival.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the books that shaped me, the ones that taught me how to breathe again, and the ones that made me want to write stories of my own.
If you’re a writer, what book made you say:
“I want to do this. I want to create worlds like this.”
My work lives here if you want to explore what I’m building:
https://patriciarichardsonauthor.com
Some stories follow you long after you close the book.
Thank you all for the support — working on new scripts tonight.