out of character, on the blog-- ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/a...

Thank you so much for sharing your creative process regarding characters, sir! All the best from a Finnish tabletop roleplayer (a hobby in which the characters are co-created and exist in the imaginations of the playing group), sir!

I particularly like the last sentence there. The motivation to write is mysterious (but definite), as is what I hope to achieve by it. Essentially, it's a compulsion. Also, to get better at what I'm good at by practice. And to explain to myself & someone else why a particular thing bothers me.