Are Your Characters Playing Against Type?

When I decide on supporting characters to follow in a written story I do it the same way it's done in Hollywood for a TV show or a movie. I have casting calls in my head and then I do auditions.

Yes. To answer your next (and possibly only question), I am clinically insane.

They just haven't caught me yet.

Some writers relieve writing fatigue by trying different genre-bends or perhaps writing