I will say things like this on occasion but it's usually privately. I think that a lot of it has to do with not so much author not taking ownership and just more flow of words.
IE My brain won't stop adding things to this scene
but instead, the person will say: X character won't shut up, keeps on yammering away.
It's the same when people blame muses for an idea that won't go away.
I have a few stories that have got away from me while I am writing. I do love the way I went with that story and I know that I am the one that went that way and not my characters but really it's easier and funner to blame the characters than it is to blame myself.
As to not knowing where the story will go and letting the characters decide, that's just a really weird way of saying they are pantsing the story.
It also depends I think on the background of the person and what kind of artsy education they have had. I know that a lot of (paint, pencil) type artists are told to go where the muse takes them. Many have probably just shifted muse to "character" and just went with it.
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on 2017-08-01 11:53 pm (UTC)IE My brain won't stop adding things to this scene
but instead, the person will say: X character won't shut up, keeps on yammering away.
It's the same when people blame muses for an idea that won't go away.
I have a few stories that have got away from me while I am writing. I do love the way I went with that story and I know that I am the one that went that way and not my characters but really it's easier and funner to blame the characters than it is to blame myself.
As to not knowing where the story will go and letting the characters decide, that's just a really weird way of saying they are pantsing the story.
It also depends I think on the background of the person and what kind of artsy education they have had. I know that a lot of (paint, pencil) type artists are told to go where the muse takes them. Many have probably just shifted muse to "character" and just went with it.