Friends As Characters | Like A Writer
Hey Guys x Welcome to the third instalment of my series 'Like A Writer'! I've been loving doing these so far! Just to reiterate - with all of these posts, this is just my personal opinion. I'm not a published author, so don't think that what I'm saying is something that you definitely have to do! In fact, take everything I say with a pinch of salt, see what you think about it and comment your own opinion in the comments. This week I'm mainly talking about secondary characters, but this can apply to your main character(s) too. It's really easy to base our characters on people we know in our real lives, and in a way, this makes complete sense. What better way to make a character 3 dimensional than to base it on someone you really know! In the book 'See Jane Write', it gives the advice: 'shoplift a few items, don't steal the whole store; - meaning, take a few personality traits of your friends, don't insert their whole selve...