I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
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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.
To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
I always talk about my characters like they're real people.
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.