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Writing From Experience

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When I first started writing fiction, I fell under the umbrella of writers who were afraid to write "what they knew." To me, it felt wrong, on some level, to endow my fiction with personal experiences. If my writing was influenced by the people around me, could it be taken the wrong way? Could I end up hurting the people I cared about by writing a character similar to them in an "undesirable" fashion? Was it possible to balance "writing what you know" and creating tangible, unique fiction? Real People Who Influence Characters The first time I tried writing a character influenced by someone I knew, it felt very forced. It seemed that every action this character did somehow didn't "fit." The world that they were inhabiting, the things that they had to do to make the story work , just wouldn't mesh with this manufactured personality.  Created via the  imgflip meme generator In my experience, trying to push characters into certain personality...