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Do you write your characters, or do they write themselves?

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The goal is for my characters to write themselves! I get in my head sometimes though. But after enough time playing them, I just kind of go with their flow. Hopefully they have interacted meaningfully enough with the world that there is something more solid to go off.

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This used to be a thing with me, back in the day, the characters "writing themselves," but I do think you have to be careful with this approach. In essence, this is Method acting — You understand the

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I really just want to echo everything said here. It leads to uncomfortable situations when you go into someone's DMs and ask if they could adjust their reply a little because the plot is derailing too

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The short answer from me is that when they are simply 'characters' I am writing for or as, then I am fully driving that boat - and if they think they are 'real people' then they want to be channeled t

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