Remember me. The story behind the story (part 6)

The author and his creation.

How much of the real life of an author in his works? How much of the personality of an author in his characters?
These are interesting questions and soon after getting to write one begins to pose because, if one is an observer when one writes, the characters begin to speak as one, begin to think as one and act as one would in certain circumstances.
The above also applies to the passages of our life (in my case many experiences of my childhood and early youth). Since I can remember I have liked classic art (styles such as renaissance, baroque, victorian) in music, painting, sculpture and architecture. There are many images of all that, that populate my mind and that I capture when writing.
Fortunately, today I can find many artists from different disciplines that satisfy my desire to enjoy that in the present.

In music, for example, I can mention the violinist Lindsey Stirling whom I really enjoy listening to.

Carol of the Bells is a Ukrainian song originally composed in 1914 by the composer Mykola Leontovich and which, performed today, maintains a sublime beauty, impossible to ignore.

Here I will tell you a secret about my work, in Remember me I have put, in some special sectors of the plot, real passages of my own life, I will not tell you which ones (I'll let you try to discover them). They are facts of my life that have marked me in some very special way and that I have never wanted to let them be erased from my mind; I imagine that it is even possible that some of you, when you read certain parts of Remember me, will find yourself reading passages from your own lives ... and I hope they will evoke the same melancholy happiness that they evoke to me.

With respect to the characters, I must confess that I love to see myself reflected in them. A lot of what they say are things that I really think. No matter the sex or their main characteristic (if they are good or bad) because, as with ying and yang, good and evil are mixed in everything and in all, and what defines what is good and what is evil is the proportion of good and evil that there is in each attitude or in each person...

The hardest speeches, the hardest things to say, are usually said by the characters we consider "evil" (although it is not always and that's when they most impact) and the most beautiful and pleasant things are reserved for the "good" (sounds unfair, but that's how the stories work).

However in Remember me my characters are not entirely "evil" or entirely "good" (that would not be real, it would be a cliché of immaturity and, as a writer, I have been safe from that for a long time). You can see how my characters are changing as different things happen to them (and they will change much more in the future, in ways that will surprise you, I assure you) and, as life changes us all, they too It's the same.

Here I leave this entry, which has been a bit introspective, with a reflection own personal: "Writing a book is possibly the only thing more fascinating than reading it".