Who is your protagonist?
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Who is your protagonist?
For example, a beautiful girl (or boy, at that) who doesn't know it, with few friends but appears not to need many friends. This kind of person I'll write about at length. I love this type of character and though they're never the same in each story, this initial description applies to each of them and I have a clear idea of who in particular it is that I've based them on with an envious eye.
Curious to know how others come to create their protagonists? What's the inspiration, or do they pop up out of nowhere, fully formed? Do you pick and choose from reality or mould someone completely from your imagination?
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I do sometimes use someone I know as the basis for a secondary or minor character. This saves me time in not having to come up with a unique personality. I don't like doing this with MC because I want to feel free to have something bad happen to the characters or even have them die. I figure it would be an awkward situation to base a character on your close friend or family member and then have them read the dramatic way in which they die. Choosing someone from my past might would probably be another option I could use without any hard feelings.
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To answer directly, I take one, tiny thing from myself or my life, and let my imagination and fictional world do the rest. For me, that's perfectly fine, but I think it also depends on the story you're wanting to write.
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