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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

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.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

Character is not created on the spot.

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.