The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.
My stories are character driven.
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.