Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.
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To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
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.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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.
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
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.