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.
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Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.
In a way, the characters often do take over.
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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.
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