My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.
As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.