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[aesmael]

Writing characters based on people I know. It's the same difficulty I have with writing anything fanfiction if the result is intended to be at all representative of the original canon. That is, I am not very good at making my version resemble the source. Probably I am poor at characterisation overall, but it shows especially sharply if the version I write is intended to resemble some preexisting version.

In this case I think the better thing for me to do is not attempt to make representations true to any actual person and leave it at simply 'inspiration was given from...'. Especially since I would actually find it unpleasant to write accurate representations of people I know for this or probably any other story.

The thought process leading to this post can be approximated as follows:
"I'm stuck, I don't know what these characters would do now."
*an idea presents itself*
"I like that, but is it at all what RealPerson would do? It seems very unlike her."
*realisation of this maybe not being a problem*

Comments

[whimsical-esper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not all that good at writing fanfiction that matches the canon. I don't think I've tried something like this tho, hmm, interesting. =)

~S