To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.
When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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.