I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.
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.
I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.
Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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