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I came across such statement here on Writing SE and I don't agree much with it. But what I'd like to know is why would it be "impossible" to make good characters using real people. Searching about...
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System
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2019-12-08T08:20:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/34376 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Yuuza
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2019-12-08T08:20:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
I came across such statement here on Writing SE and I don't agree much with it. But what I'd like to know is _why_ would it be "impossible" to make good characters using real people. Searching about this, I found that one of the reasons that it's not recommended to use real people as characters is because "real people are _boring_ characters". But I think there's no point in taking it in an absolute way, since real people make boring characters because _the people used_ are boring, but if the people are interesting people, couldn't they be good characters? Can real people really be good characters? If not, why? * * * <sup>(Of course, disconsidering the legal implications of using real people as fictional characters. I'm asking character-wise only.)</sup>
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-03-18T05:03:42Z (over 6 years ago)
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