Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
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