Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.
It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.