Superman79

How much do you have to know about yourself and people around you to write even a short fictional stories that incorporates there being in the text?

lisajane

I don't write about me, and generally not about anyone I know either. We're all too boring

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Patrick Beverley

If you want to have a character based on someone you know in a story, you need to know how they would act in all the situations in which you will put their character.

This is easy if you know how they have acted when actually put in that situation. It is more difficult if you want to put them in a situation in which they have never been.

Mike C

Yes you do. You just don't know you do.

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fjf1329

We all write about ourselves in the context of our life experience. But why worry. It's fiction isn't it ? Write about what you know and then fill the spaces with something that you know from your experience is plausible.

Patrick Beverley

Because everyone's a little bit concerned that what they're writing might not be believable, and they're trying to minimise that risk.

fjf1329

My point exactly. Writing what you know and from life experience does minimize the risk of writing something unbelievable

jesterscourt

For me, it varies. A lot of the more realistic stuff that I write is more along the lines of an expanded version of my life, all killer with very little filler. And of course, with all this compression, events that happened to people around me always happened to my protagonist, not support characters. I did always wonder if people would try to disseminate my stuff and say, "hey this was about..."

Actually to a point that has happened before in workshops. And you know what? More often than not believe the stuff that was entirely made up, and find the "based in some fact" events are too implausible to happen. So go figure. Also, I think everyone has a friend or group of friends that is just way too incredibly multi-faceted that they would never make a credible character in a story or book. If I ever go back to comics or learn to animate though, it will be comedy gold!

CaptainFreedom

I use people I know or have seen for their physical description, but as far as behaviors or personalities go, I usually let them evolve from the story. A lot of times, I have to go back to make the beginning chapters fit with how the character has developed.

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Voodoo

I have a weird time with characters.

I don't think I've had anymore than one for a while...

wmd

If it is fictional, why does it matter?

ps... I love Supes... I have a Superman/Batman sleeve tattoo on my leg.

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Labyrinth

I don't want my personal life out there, that's too much! Especially for the public, people will scream. "DOWN WITH THIS BOOK! AMEN!".

People be praying in street corners just scar to see this book, screaming, "No! No! No!".


It be censor, it illegal, it be every bad thing in the world.
----Kidding