Eric Hays-Strom asked M.C.A. Hogarth:

Your characters all seem to spring already developed onto the page! Have they been living in your head for a long time before they find the light of day? And related to this.. do you think your characters are a little reflection of some part of YOU? (Some, perhaps, not all...)

M.C.A. Hogarth Some characters are olllllld, very very old, and have been around a long time. (I'm looking at you, Jahir and Vasiht'h. And you too, Alysha.) Some just coalesce when I'm writing and I think, 'Oh hey, hi 2 u!' And then I want to keep them around because they're interesting people. So I guess the answer to the first part of your question is 'sometimes'?

Life, why u so complicated. >.>

As for part two of your question, I think all art is a reflection of its creator, so in that sense, everything I write, characters included, is part of me. Those characters are also a part of everyone I meet and everyone I observe and all the people I listen to in coffee shops and all the people I've loved and found repellent, and the entire gamut in between...! So, you know, I'm pretty safely hidden. Please do not come up to me and ask me if I want to participate in questionable bondage threesomes because I must be Lisinthir, having written him.

Yes, that happened.

-_-

Seriously, don't do that. >.>

Next question?? *sweatdrops*

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