Found some great nuggets of info to day from various blogs, this one in particular struck a chord with me.

"When I write, I understand that I am not in control, and I don’t fight that. I throw the reins to the characters and let them go where they will. It works, because I feel tense and nervous when I’m in charge of other people, and characters, well…. They’re other people. They’ve got pieces of me in them, all my characters do, but they’re not me, and they have their own desires and personalities. They act upon those. I let them make their decisions, and the system just works."

From :  http://crimsonleague.com/2013/01/04/fear-of-the-unknown/

on Victoria Grefer's Blog at: http://crimsonleague.com/