Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 29, 2018 23:11:55 GMT
Let's talk about characters. Do you think of your characters as real people whose stories you are privileged or burdened to share? Or are they your creations whom you mold and shape to use as you please? Do you use character tropes to make the process quicker, and then build onto your characters as the story progresses? Do you steal characters from your favorite stories written by other people? Do you base characters on people you know in real life? Do you do all of these things at different times and in different ways?
My goddess character began with a snippet that popped into my head: she awoke to the sound of a thousand voices crying her name. This fascinated me and I wanted to know more. I named her partially after my crush, and based some of her attributes on her. But over time Valevia became her own person. I can place her into timeline or plot setting and know immediately what she would do. She definitely doesn't seem like someone I created, but like a being who truly exists.
I have other characters that I definitely created for the purposes of a story, and I don't care much about them.
My favorite characters are always the ones who come to life and stop listening to me and what I want. They have their own lives, their own opinions and beliefs, and I can control them about as well as I can control anybody else.
What about you? What are your characters like? How do they come to be?
