It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
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.
I just let the character speak to me and things appear.
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly what was in my head or what I was imagining it should be.