The same personalities Andrew Lloyd Webber gave them, you mean.
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The same personalities Andrew Lloyd Webber gave them, you mean.
mccardey, I do see that. One thing, some posters on here refer to a character based on a real person almost as if they are a fictionalised version of the person. IMO, in a way that's true. Does anyone share this opinion?But not really, though - because C and E were actual people, and actual people of whom you have no first-hand knowledge, and who have no temporal connection at all with your fictional world and its characters. So your characters are based on C and E. They're not "basically" C and E at all - they're based on them.
Some people will find that fascinating - even more so if they work it out for themselves. But by insisting on using the names, you can see you're just setting yourself up for arguments with people who mind you blurring the distinction between "actual" and "based on" - quite apart from people who might know a whole lot more about C and E than you do!
"Fans" of C and E (that is, people who see them, say, as the ALW characterisations) might get a buzz out of being clever enough to work out the connections. Students or people with a real interest in them or the real world they really lived in might be a lot less forgiving. A whole lot less. And publishers will know that.
It just seems unnecessary trouble you're making for yourself, do you see?
But there. I've said my bit.
mccardey, I do see that. One thing, some posters on here refer to a character based on a real person almost as if they are a fictionalised version of the person. IMO, in a way that's true. Does anyone share this opinion?
Unless you're writing a biography, they are fictionalized./QUOTE]
Alexandra, so that applies even if the character does things the real person never did? eg in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, where everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln didn't really kill vampires?
Yeah, the facts in that book areThe Abraham Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is fictionalized version of the historical person. You are not writing truth about an actual person - you are making things up, even if you stay as close to accepted fact as possible.