I find it's the opposite: I start as God, crafting them from nothing and giving them life and physical embodiment (although never in my own image; I wouldn't be that cruel), but then they take over and tell me their life story and their characteristics and faults and I become a slave to them; there merely to pass on their story to anyone who might care to hear it.
Although I can be mean to them if my mood (or the plot) determines that I should.
You could start out as a slave and if that doesn't suit you or they get a bit too hard to handle become their God and tell them if they don't like it you have the power to destroy them,
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Charlotte Bronte.
I find it's the opposite: I start as God, crafting them from nothing and giving them life and physical embodiment (although never in my own image; I wouldn't be that cruel), but then they take over and tell me their life story and their characteristics and faults and I become a slave to them; there merely to pass on their story to anyone who might care to hear it.
Although I can be mean to them if my mood (or the plot) determines that I should.
You could start out as a slave and if that doesn't suit you or they get a bit too hard to handle become their God and tell them if they don't like it you have the power to destroy them,