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    The Sounding Board Club Update · Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:16 pm
    I'm going to try to keep this going as a Monday thing, so here's this week's general question: To you, are characters closer to people or closer to tools?

    Do your characters have more control over the plot? Do they have minds of their own? Or do you easily go without their influence and just follow what you know?

    Mea replied · Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:15 pm

    It kind of depends on the character. I never really feel like they're tools, but they don't usually just take over from me. I guess we have an agreement of sorts.

    Wait till I get writer's block though


    Vervain replied · Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:23 pm

    Writer's block is the death of characters xD

    Yeah, I'd have to say that it's somewhere in-between for me. My characters have never really completely taken over -- I can still change their plots, goals, and traits -- but they definitely develop lives of their own when I spend enough time thinking about them. It leads to a lot of interesting character development and figuring out new things.


    ThatAndalite replied · Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:25 pm

    My characters are much closer to being people - I mean, the whole plot twists because of what they feel like doing for that day, especially if they're evil or some crap like that. They each have a unique and pretty cool mind. I like standing in Kasza's sometimes.



The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451