After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?' I create individuals so real to me, I sometimes start talking to them. Then I let them loose on the page.
I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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