How do find what voice to write in? It's not like I ever actually decide to go first-person, it just happens. I worked for quite a long time trying to get started on writing the series of mysteries that I'm working on now, but it just never started until I sat down one day and it came out in first person. That was strange for me since my main character was a Japanese-American College professor and a guy. I wasn't sure if I could find a male voice, but the guys who read it say it is. We have a big in common, my character and I. We're both hillbillies, we don't like undercooked meat, we like cats and both watch Magnum P.I. But I'm not sure why I hear his voice and not others. I've spun off other characters in this little Cyndaverse of mine to their own stories, but I don't write them in first person. They just don't talk to me that way. And on that subject, do other people have control over their characters? Can you make them do and say anything you want or do you just write what they say. I mean, I could write something down on paper they don't want to say, but it would never sound right and never fit in. I really feel like I do have a muse. Perhaps if I wasn't creative I'd be in a cell talking about the voices. But I often feel I have no real control over the plot. It does what it does and I've been surprised to go back and read my own stuff and see that I've foreshadowed things that would happen three or four books laters without consciensely meaning to do it.