I find that using real life characters and adapting them is the best route to 'original' characters. Either that or you just write and write and write until your characters become real.
When I was at school I used to do creative writing twice - once to get the plot right and a second time to make it read better. I'm now adopting that with my novel, which is a much bigger undertaking, but in the course of it, the characters are getting much more real (something that your advice has helped me with in one case).
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Date: 2009-10-02 01:17 pm (UTC)When I was at school I used to do creative writing twice - once to get the plot right and a second time to make it read better. I'm now adopting that with my novel, which is a much bigger undertaking, but in the course of it, the characters are getting much more real (something that your advice has helped me with in one case).