I feel more like an evil god to my characters. I create them imperfectly with flaws and pitfalls. Then I give them horrible things to deal with, often from a very early age. Occasionally I'll dangle a carrot and watch them flail to reach it when there's a carrot cake right behind them.
I give them life and give them a world and they run off and muck about in my head. The minor characters are all my puppets and I use them to manipulate the main characters into doing something interesting enough to be story-worthy.
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Date: 2009-06-09 06:17 pm (UTC)I give them life and give them a world and they run off and muck about in my head. The minor characters are all my puppets and I use them to manipulate the main characters into doing something interesting enough to be story-worthy.