I've been curious about that, lately. Wondering how it is, more or less, that other people interact with these parts/pieces/names/voices. The metacognition of writing. How does it work with other people, and is it really all that dangerous, and are all writers a little bit crazy?

I've been worried that, when writing (fanfic or my original stories), I'm more of a puppeteer than a reporter (and I used to be much more of a reporter, for various reasons), and I worry that I'm not being 'true' to the characters. Because even in fiction, a lot of it is about truth, still. (Perhaps moreso than in nonfiction, maybe, because the truth you're relaying is so ... ephemeral, for lack of a better word.) But even then you have to ask yourself 'who' these characters are and 'where' they come from...