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(I previously asked a related question about projecting myself onto my characters.) I've read just few books where authors use their own life experience as the basis for the characters and plot (m...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:34:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
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weakdna says reinstate monica
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2019-12-08T10:34:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
(I previously asked a related question about [projecting myself onto my characters](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/40956/not-projecting-myself-onto-my-characters).) I've read just few books where authors use their own life experience as the basis for the characters and plot (most recently, _It's Kind of a Funny Story_ by Ned Vizzini), but most books I read have characters that are nothing like their authors, whether that's in personality, physical attributes like race or sex, background, or life-altering/major experiences, and have plotlines that the author hasn't lived. Is it common for authors, especially major ones with bestsellers, to model characters and plots after themselves? Perhaps I just haven't encountered many authors who do this? And would it be out of place for me to model characters after my own experiences as well, given however many authors do the same?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-01-11T14:47:49Z (almost 6 years ago)
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