Do you ever ‘cast’ your characters?

Juia_Darkcrest said:

The only actor I could see play my MC has been dead since 1979.

John Wayne, playing John Wayne

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I see where you're coming from...
Joanna Lumley is portrayed in my book, but not as a protagonist. Obviously, I'd love to see her play her role. Haha

No, my brain is mush so I imagine my characters as drawings rather than real people

Failnot said:

No, my brain is mush so I imagine my characters as drawings rather than real people

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I am also afflicted in this way. The 2D complex is inescapable.

Actually, there was a time when I did consider casting characters, but my own Jack Diamond story convinced me I shouldn't - you see, I had someone offer to read chapters of books free of charge so he could show off his recording set-up and get some voice acting experience. When he read the first two chapters, it sounded more like Tim Curry's Gabriel Knight from the 90s video games than like the Sam Spade/Phillip Marlowe of Humphrey Bogart I kind of imagined when I was writing him - which actually fit, at least the two chapters if not the whole story, a little better. Sometimes the writer's vision for a casting may not be ideal.