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Do you "cast" your characters?
Maybe not -exactly- like a movie character, or a celebrity of a sort, but somewhat? Maybe even someone you know?
And if so, do you do it deliberately? Or accidentally?
I create the backgrounds for my characters, and I go into deep detail, but sometimes it helps me with dialog, and actions if I see my character as, say McGyver (okay, bad example, but you get my drift). Not necessarily someone who can use string, duct-tape, and a swiss army knife and come up with a small explosive to get out of a trap, but someone who is resourceful, and relatively non-violent.
Two of my current characters are inspired by two dear friends, who are wonderfully open people, so it's safe :rollin Yes, they know they've been "cast", and they're taking it with good humour...and not interfering, unless I have a technical question to pose to them.
But there is an occasion where the character becomes inspired by someone known, or known-of, purely by accident. This is my current situation. In fact, the character in question wasn't even -planned- for in the first place, but he became the MC. I sorta just gave in, and ran with it. But how do the rest of you handle it when it's not planned?
Maybe not -exactly- like a movie character, or a celebrity of a sort, but somewhat? Maybe even someone you know?
And if so, do you do it deliberately? Or accidentally?
I create the backgrounds for my characters, and I go into deep detail, but sometimes it helps me with dialog, and actions if I see my character as, say McGyver (okay, bad example, but you get my drift). Not necessarily someone who can use string, duct-tape, and a swiss army knife and come up with a small explosive to get out of a trap, but someone who is resourceful, and relatively non-violent.
Two of my current characters are inspired by two dear friends, who are wonderfully open people, so it's safe :rollin Yes, they know they've been "cast", and they're taking it with good humour...and not interfering, unless I have a technical question to pose to them.
But there is an occasion where the character becomes inspired by someone known, or known-of, purely by accident. This is my current situation. In fact, the character in question wasn't even -planned- for in the first place, but he became the MC. I sorta just gave in, and ran with it. But how do the rest of you handle it when it's not planned?