I'm starting a DFRPG campaign and my group has already done the city and character creation as described in the book, but we haven't had our first regular session yet.  But now it looks like I may get two new players - one who will be joining us at the first session, and another who will be joining in a few weeks.  My question is, since the new players weren't involved in the collaborative character creation, how have others handled creating the new characters?  Do you just have them write their own back story, or go through the 5 phases on their own, or actually have the group participate in creating the characters?