In a way, the characters often do take over.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After a while, the character sort of took over.
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
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.
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
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.
The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.