What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
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You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.
Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
You can escape into a character.
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
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.
By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.