XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism   
   From: brianf88@bigpond.net.au   
      
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   >> The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.It is interesting to hear   
   >> writers describe their experiences with their creation,where the   
   >> 'characters' actually take over.   
   >   
   > I think that characters are merely composites of people we've known in   
   > our life. So when the characters take over, it's remembering   
   > interactions with people we've known in our life, to imagine what those   
   > people might do. And so the book writes itself.   
   >   
      
   I would say it goes much deeper than that.   
      
   The people we "think we have known", are reflections of ourselves, as are   
   the ones we 'create' in a book .   
      
   Illustrating that we each move in a direction unknown to us at any given   
   time.   
      
   BOfL   
      
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