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My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
