It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.
I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.
If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.
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