Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
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And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.
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.
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.
I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me.
My stories are character driven.
My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.
For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.
I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.
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