It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're playing someone fictitious, there's myriad ways in. With a real person, there's boundaries, and that sometimes makes the work easier.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as 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.
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.