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9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
I don't really have a set process . . . sometimes a story idea will come to me and then the characters follow, and other times it'll be the character first and I'll have that person in mind for months/years before I find a story that fits them.
I'll usually use a character sheet at some point-- full name, age, physical appearance, favorite childhood memory, most embarrassing childhood memory, that kind of thing. There are some minor characters I don't know all these things about, of course, but if the character's a main one and especially if I write for them in more than one book, I know plenty about them that might not ever make it into the novel.
I don't really have a set process . . . sometimes a story idea will come to me and then the characters follow, and other times it'll be the character first and I'll have that person in mind for months/years before I find a story that fits them.
I'll usually use a character sheet at some point-- full name, age, physical appearance, favorite childhood memory, most embarrassing childhood memory, that kind of thing. There are some minor characters I don't know all these things about, of course, but if the character's a main one and especially if I write for them in more than one book, I know plenty about them that might not ever make it into the novel.
