Day 27 - How much are your characters inspired by real life people?
Most of my central characters have a real-life counterpart, but most of their personalities and conflict with one another are fictionalized.
Even though I’ve given the Hopper family a similar set-up to my own, (father, mother, older daughter, younger son), I don’t want to make them too similar. What I enjoy about writing fiction, is taking a kernel of truth from my own experience, and then creating something entirely different from it.
Hopefully if I do manage to complete this story after all the rewrites and get published, the Hopper’s will be so different no one from my family will even recognize that they were the starting canvas for my characters.
