That happens with every single character I make. They all have where they started and as I develop them more and more, they begin to get their own thought and perspectives. Whenever I write for them, I never think what I want them to do. It’s always about how THEY would react and what THEY would do. There are characters that behave dramatically different from myself and I’ve played characters that consistently make terrible decisions- but that is just how they would behave. Sandy Rivers is the epitome of that. She’s headstrong, assertive, quick to assume and fast to dismiss. In many ways, she destroys everything for herself but it is the only way she knows hoe to live and from her perspective, it’s rational and logical. Understanding characters and their perspective is paramount to writing characters people can love and relate to.
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And I was just about to ask if you feel like you put a lot of yourself in your characters. That said, do you ever feel like your characters develop personalities different than you originally intended? Like you think about how the character would react, not how you want them to react? Or that their personality gets away from you and end up changing the idea you had in your head?