Scott Rochester<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writerscoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writerscoffeeclub</span></a> 19 Apr 'How do you feel about using real people as lookalikes for your characters?'</p><p>You want an honest answer?</p><p>I would have thought that this Venn diagram was true for most of us, most of the time?</p><p>Speaking for myself, and in relation to a character, I might (for example) prompt myself:</p><p>What would Fred Flintstone do?<br>What would Winston Churchill say?<br>What would [my school teacher] ask?<br>How would I react?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKeduChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKeduChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wellbeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wellbeing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CopperWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperWolf</span></a></p>