I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.
I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
I love polarizing people.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.