Member Question: What comes first, the story or the character?

Ladies Who Critique Member Lola James has just self-published her first book (congrats!), a paranormal romance titled Bound to Remember. Today she is asking fellow writers about their writing process: what comes first for you, the story or the character? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!

"JK Rowling has stated in many interviews that Harry came to her first, and then she worked the story around him. It took her five years to write the first Harry Potter book and it all started while s...