Hi Sk8er_Gurlie03,
When I'm writing I try to forget all about me. I try to 'disappear' and slip entirely into the world and skins of the characters (though, yes, since it's me writing, I am still there). But I was wondering what it would be like in a world where cataclysmic events had swept away all the old organised structures - of power, government, communications, civilisation and even beliefs. What would it be like? What would people do?
I thought that it was very possible that the religions we know would still exist - but many people have no religion at all and I found myself wondering what people might find to believe in, in a devastated world, where the old threads of belief had been lost. In Exodus, Tain says at one point that he feels he lives in 'a godforsaken place'. What would it be like, I asked myself, to feel that the Earth itself had turned against you and that God (whatever god you believe in, if you do) has deserted you?
So it's really not about me or what I think or believe; it's about the characters and their world, an exploration, an imagining of communities that have had to begin again. That was the exciting thing for me. To bring religion (as we know it) into the book would have led me down an entirely different path - so I didn't!
Hope that helps
