It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
I'm teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books.
I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.