My Characters part II

So, I know I talked a lot about characters the other day, but when I read over it, I realized I left a few things that I deem important out. One of those things is that a lot of the time, your characters need to be in some ways like you but yet different. And the other is that in some ways and in some cases, you need to let your characters do the talking.

Thing one: When I write or develop a character, I think about the ways I can make them like me, or the things I like about me that I can put into my characters. I absolutely love music, so about 99% of the time, my characters are going to love music. I love movies, so I am going to incorporate movies into my story or into my characters.
Some times I make my characters into what I want myself to be. Smarter, taller, skinnier, get the perfect guy (although my guy is pretty great so I'm not complaining) have green or purple eyes, have the perfect hair, preferably black or deep red. But you get the point.
And sometimes I make my characters completely different from me, well not exactly completely different from me, but some ways like me and some ways not. I am writing a character now who loves to run. I hate running so I can't really get into that mind set. But what I can do is let my characters tell me why they love running, and that leads me to the second thing.

Thing two: I was writing a scene about an hour ago where I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen but when I was writing it, it changed drastically. But I felt it was something my character was telling me she wanted to do and I just had to let her do it. You may be the writer, but your characters are what make the story, so sometimes you just have to let them do what they want to do and trust that they know what they are doing.

Tata for now!