The problem, I suppose, is in getting them to do what you want to in a way that’s both believable and entertaining for the reader.
In that respect they’re much easier to deal with than real people. The great thing about characters is that you can make them do whatever you want them to. In what ways do your characters test your abilities? But I try to make sure I spend a certain amount of time in the chair, and mix it up with the emailing and other tasks you have to do. Planning doesn’t work much like drafting which doesn’t work much like revision which doesn’t work much like touring and promoting. I don’t know that there’s any such thing – it depends a lot on where I am in the writing cycle.
Almost straight away I started to be really excited by what was coming out. So I started writing my take on the classic epic fantasy trilogy just for my own amusement, really. I then ended up working as a freelance tv editor in my 20s, and I’d have a fair bit of time off between jobs.
I read a lot of fantasy (and all kinds of other things) as a kid, and played a lot of role-playing games, so I guess I had a lot of character and world ideas hanging around the back of my head.
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