9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
You know, this is another hard one to answer. Ideas for characters pop up out of everything and nothing at the same time. There's no real surefire method for it that I use, or anything like that. So instead of answering this, I'm going to switch over to
Neil Gaiman's essay on where writers get their ideas. He says everything I could possibly want to, and more.