When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.
You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.
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.
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
My process is kind of intuitive - I think about how a character will speak according to their station and personality, occasionally making notes with guidelines for their mannerisms, and then I just sort of crack on and write it.