I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
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There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.
I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
I always try to make each character my own.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.
There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.
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