I often get asked "Where do you get your characters from?" "Was he based on a real person?" "Does she really exist?" "Is this character based on you?"
I guess what I am really being asked is not where I retrieved and/or created the characters in my stories, but where the questioner can find their own characters...
Now we can analyse what makes a character seem so alive, so special, larger than life, real, but would that analysis lead to a believable...
