Are your characters based on real life people, complete invention, or a mixture of both?
Are there particular books that have influenced your characters?
Are your characters based on real life people, complete invention, or a mixture of both?
Are there particular books that have influenced your characters?
I think Gilly hits the nail on the head.
Except...there are bits of YOU in there, too, particularly in MCs.It's unavoidable. Once you get inside a character something of your own personality must rub off if that person is to be real. Even parts you usually manage to bury deep; things you wouldn't want your family to know.
Good job it's only fiction :)
Nice question. My characters are adaptations of people I've known/know and sometimes they are made up of several people I have come across as I've liked different things in them which I make up into a single character. I wouldn't say books have influenced mine but more that life has. I don't think these people would recognise themselves as my characters as I've added and missed out lots of things so they are quite ficticious. I also like 'people watching' in cafes which helps me get ideas.