I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw..

Words were different when they lived inside of you..

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life..

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break..