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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.