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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm fascinated by how so many talk about liking, caring about, or being interested in characters as if they are actual people, rather than successful or unsuccessful constructs of the author; used to propel the plot. ...
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Honestly I don't understand the point of reading fiction if you don't care about the characters. It's almost like reducing the plot to a mathematical formula. It sounds cold to me.
For me characters do come "alive." Sometimes when I write, I've changed the plot because a character (whom I've gotten to "know" better) could no longer do what I originally planned they would do. They've changed and I have to respect that.
At any rate, that's how I look at it. Stories, in my opinion, are primarily about people (characters) -- the world they "inhabit" (though important) is secondary.