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Pretty much all my stories so far have featured a core OC & I realised today that for the couple of one-shots I've done, I have a passing relationship with those OCs, but for the longer stories, it's like I live in the OC's head. Part of it is no doubt the nature of spending months writing from a character's perspective, but it feels odd now that I've recognised it. Like having an alter ego or a twin.

Does this make any sense to any other writers or am I just talking complete nonsense?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the nature of writing characters is forming an idea of who they might be as people. The longer you spend with them, the more you get to know them and maybe the more attached you get as well.