Does anyone else here make OC's into sims?

I do this with my novel characters all the time. Most of them are just for the library, so I can show them off to any readers who wonder what they look like in my head, and I often use them to recreate scenes from the stories or have them pose for book covers, but some even live among my other sims in the game. To me, my characters are like my children, and even though I almost never get their faces or their clothes exactly right, it feels great seeing them come to life that way.