MLT wrote in another thread:
I don't think Lois is more likely to die than Clark is or visa versa and here's why. Lois and Clark are fictional characters. So when I write about them, I become God to them. As 'God', I make the decision about who will live and who will die. And as 'God', I can kill off one just as easily as I can kill off the other.
This got me thinking. In school I read a novel and the author said that his characters are really deciding what is happening. He said that he has an idea and starts creating his characters. He wants them to do something and then suddenly they "act" completely different.
What's your opinion?
It's not about killing characters but making them do something? Do you always succeed? Or are they sometimes stubbornly insisting to act on their own?
