Being a writer is taking every little fragment that composes you, the good, the bad and everything in between, and creating characters from those fragments who interact with the world you provide in their own unique way. You pluck snippets or chunks from your life and worldly experiences and weave them into the characters story. But ultimately, it is the characters you create who mold the story before your eyes. You just write it.
I've been so frustrated because I've been wanting to write for ever and even made a few characters but many forums and websites say that you can't base characters to yourself :/
you sort of take yourself apart and rebuild yourself into them, giving them things you never had and never giving them some traits or experiences. My characters take mostly my darkest aspects mixed with awful things that I never have been close to going through, and then I give them something light and wonderful to make up for the darkness.
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· 8 years ago
Building off what umbra said: Don't use yourself as a full model for a character, just pieces. Once you add in a character that looks, talks, acts like you, then that's a self insert and definitely not a good thing. But if you break apart your characteristics, you'll be able to build better, more in depth characters. And, when you use bits of yourself, you can write the character more realistically because you understand that part of them.
my comparisons are not doing so well tonight