You feel a connection with characters that you’re already familiar with and you know how they’d react to pretty much any situation. I’m only saying this because I realised how much better my writing is in my story compared to little improvised bits I might think of. I can improvise anything with the characters I already have and it’d be a lot better because I know them.

If you’re a writer, you know how precious your characters are to you and I love mine to bits. I even like carrying around the pad I write in when I don’t write on the laptop because I feel closer to them, even when I don’t know for sure that I’m going to write in it.

Characters are like your children: you made them, you know them and you love them.

I’ve not really felt like this before because the only stories I’ve done in the past have been ones I’ve not been that dedicated to, ones that were shit or fanfics where the characters already existed. But when I wrote fanfiction, I altered their characteristics a bit to make them seem a bit more exaggerated (e.g. Russell Brand was pretty much like he was on stage ALL THE TIME when I wrote him) and so they felt like my own characters too, just not as much as the ones I have now do.

I love these guys.

I wish more than most things that are impossible that characters you invent could come to life and hang out with you, that would be amazing beyond belief.

Lexi, Julian, Niles, Sarah, Blakey, everyone else…you’re amazing.

…Is that weird seeing as I’m the one who invented them? Nah it’s fine.