At no point have I mentioned that every character is me. I stated that every character I create is from my imagination, an imagination that is inspired and fueled by the real world around me.
The fictional characters I create have the sole purpose of being a part of the fictional story I have created and plotted down well in advance. The characters are not real individuals to do as they please and not follow the path I have set for them within the context of the imagined story.
If that is boring to you, then you have never read a good book.
What the heck? Minds of their own? They’re figments that have sprung from my mind and they will have ‘minds of their own’ within the context of my story, minds which again spring from one source, my mind.
Can you elaborate how your characters with ‘minds of their own’ tell you how to write their stories? And if they have ‘minds of their own’, couldn’t they just write their own stories? Why’d they need you to write it for them?
Characters I have created can do nothing without me, and that makes me their God. And exactly what is ‘highly arrogant’ about playing with my toys the way I want to play with them?
Really? What other purpose should a character serve if not to play their part in the story in which it is confined to? When you’re only developing a character without a story, they’re like a wheel without a cart.
Why should the characters not be interchangeable? Characters only exist to serve the plot of the story. Why else should they even exist?
Again, they are figments of imagination and cannot have their own terms. Terms are set by the writer/creator.
Well, do your surmise that the reader already knows about the plot of the fictional story?
The writer does of course, because the writer plotted the entire thing, including all the fictional characters and their parts in it.
Imaginary Characters are part of the fictional story. The same way as the imagined world, the fictional environment and the constructed events are created to follow the narrative of the story. What’s the point of a story if your character isn’t defined to fit in and just needs constant development and rectification outside the story?
Yes, I do - in the ‘fictional world’ that I created in my ‘fictional story’ comprising of ‘fictional characters’ created to fit into the imaginary world they’re set in.
What are your ‘fictional characters’ going to change in your ‘fictional world’ that you have not ‘pre-determined’ yourself?