All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.
In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
I always try to make each character my own.
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.
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