The characters... I know that I really need a visual to focus on. If you're not comfortable turning yourself and your Beloved into the characters, can you pick a fannish character... a person you know in real life... anyone else? I picked a students I have in class. Now, the character is still mine because I truly doubt that what I have my guy going through ever has/ever will happen to my student, but by having a real person in mind, it's easier for me to built characterization onto the bones of someone who I know. If you use Riley as the bones of your character, by the time you give him a different past, different looks, and different characteristics, no one will recognize Riley's bones deep down inside.
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The characters... I know that I really need a visual to focus on. If you're not comfortable turning yourself and your Beloved into the characters, can you pick a fannish character... a person you know in real life... anyone else? I picked a students I have in class. Now, the character is still mine because I truly doubt that what I have my guy going through ever has/ever will happen to my student, but by having a real person in mind, it's easier for me to built characterization onto the bones of someone who I know. If you use Riley as the bones of your character, by the time you give him a different past, different looks, and different characteristics, no one will recognize Riley's bones deep down inside.