Talk:Klara Spejl/@comment-26470201-20180214150513/@comment-3991308-20180224200358

How did I not respond to this? Thank you! I would definitely count Klara as an original member of my cast, and I definitely need to use her more.

I'm honoured that you find her organic!! I don't know how I did it - a lot of contemplation, I think, particularly about mathematics. One of the important factors (hehe, factors) of Klara was how I wanted her to represent how much mathematics meant to me, how important the concepts of certainty and infinity were, so I tied that into every aspect of her character.

In fact, when I describe how she speaks (with pauses, checking every phrase to make sure it's utterly correctly), it's directly inspired by how the mathematician Andrew Wiles (I'm pretty sure it was Andrew Wiles, but it could have been another dude) speaks, as described by Simon Singh. I found it a super cool reflection of how mathematicians think and how that leaks into their speech, so it had to be something I wanted to incorporate into Klara.

Long story short, I think it was a case of trying to find inspiration everywhere. You know, reading, watching, learning from people with similarities to one's characters, and seeing what aspects of them you can borrow and use.

If literature and art is supposed to be a reflection of the world, then one might as well experience the world first, right?