Developing Characters

[MissKenz]

Hey everyone. I was just wondering when you write stories how do you develop your charcters, and how well do you get to know them/how far do you go?
For example, I pretend that they are real people. I carry out conversations with them, and I know everything about them. Oh and when they do something really stupid I stop talking to them for a few days. I feel like I don't know what they will do because in my mind they are real. But that's just me. smile  

[Hybrid Defect]

I daydream how the character acts and what they are up to. Before I go to bed, I do the same thing and imagine myself either as that character or as somebody interacting with that character. I try and hold that in my memory when I am actually writing and mold how they talk and act around how I have developed them in my head.
During daily events, I wonder how a character would react to something or what their opinion on something would be.  

[Priestess of Neptune]

This is relevant to the Ideas Center. Moved.  

[GeekyTanta]

Hybrid Defect

I daydream how the character acts and what they are up to. Before I go to bed, I do the same thing and imagine myself either as that character or as somebody interacting with that character. I try and hold that in my memory when I am actually writing and mold how they talk and act around how I have developed them in my head.
During daily events, I wonder how a character would react to something or what their opinion on something would be.

Wow, I thought I was the only one who daydreamed with my characters. smile

I imagine them as real people, they always have a lot more backstory than ever gets into the plot. For me they have to be real otherwise I can't write them. They have to have a proper voice, otherwise they feel false somehow.

Its a lot like when I write fanfic, if I can't hear the actor's/character's voice saying the words then I know I haven't captured the character correctly.  

[Epic Irony]

Usually, my characters are actually based on people I know in real life, at least half-way. So those ones are easy. The characters that arent based on someone real, are usually one of my "alter-egos" or something, some part of me that I feel isn't being expressed properly. So... all of my characters, I actually already know quite personally, which makes it all rather easy.