I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.
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The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.
I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.
For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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.
When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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