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JocktheMotie

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Reminds me of when I was a kid, would invent my own friends/adventure companions, and if they became unruly I'd send them on vacations or missions to get out of my head.
 

Fluffywolf

Nips away your dignity
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Reminds me of when I was a kid, would invent my own friends/adventure companions, and if they became unruly I'd send them on vacations or missions to get out of my head.

I remember having a critter in my closet, but when he secretly moved to the toilet, I took a stinky shit on him and he gassed to death.

True story, I watched the movie critters way too young. :p
 

Tamske

Writing...
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Do you create characters based off of people you know or from your imagination? If from your imagination, how do you do it?
Both. To me, "imagination" is nothing but a remix of memories. Most of the times this happens unconsciously. The character forms into my head, I write a scene or two, I get to know the character better, I write more, I rewrite the first few scenes... And suddenly it occurs to me that our ESTJ main prefers non-fiction to fiction just like my hubby; that a side character has some characteristics of a colleague, etc etc. But it's all mixed and altered out of recognition. There's not a single character in my stories that's "just like this real person".
 

Simi

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You know, I actually do a combination of both. It actually really depends on the character.
However, I notice when I do it based off of people I tend to not know what to do with the character, I work a lot better when I completely make up the character.
 

King sns

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Do you create characters based off of people you know or from your imagination? If from your imagination, how do you do it?

A combination of things that I know and imagination. You can't start totally from scratch. The imagination part just comes without any effort after writing for a few minutes.
 
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