A good character is built on events and people that an author has experienced. The human experience and other humans are, more often than not, stranger than fiction. Creating a character based on someone (or several someones) who is real makes the character believable, attainable, and either loveable or hateable (yes, I made that word up). This is what makes a character like Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice, or Frodo from Lord of the Rings so wonderfully heroic—we can relate to them. And it is also what makes characters like Mr. Wickham and Saruman so deliciously evil. Meryl Amland writes at the Ignatius Press Novels blog.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:23:46 +0000
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