Mazey Eddings.

In this article from Writer's Digest, the author discusses their own relationship to characters and how they take shape through the writing process. They reflect on their initial judgment of method actors and their dedication to their roles, realizing that they themselves become fully absorbed by their characters when writing a novel. The author shares their experience with creating the main character of their upcoming book, Late Bloomer, and how the character's desires and personality influenced the story. They offer advice to writers to listen to their characters and let them tell their own stories. The author, Mazey Eddings, is a neurodiverse author, dentist, and cat owner, and their mission is to write love stories for every brain. [Extracted from the article]