I do not know how many do it. I some cases it would be hard to. And truly what does Harry Potter have in common with his author? It could be the sense of right and wrong, the stubbornness, a love for white owls or may nothing at all.
I tend to do it. Not copy my person into my main character, but give the person some trades that I have or just wish I had. Tara loves knives just as much as I do. Vanessa is shaped like me physically and has the courage I always wished for. Luka is a loner like I so often am. I have an unnamed character in a short story that loves wolf the way I do.
I believe that I put in trades that I know from myself to make the person more real. A main character must have good and bad sides to them to be real to the audience. In my opinion writers base everything on stuff they have seen, read, heard or experienced. That is properly also why so many writers are still reading, listening and in our time watching stories unfold.
I have no way of tell the world who it is to stand face to face with the fear of spiders or heights or claustrophobia, because I encounter my fear everyday. I am afraid of humans. It is odd I know, but I like a clean fifty-centimeter bubble when I am out in the world. I get uncomfortable when strangers talk to me. I know as a writer one must be able to create mostly any character and I do, just not for the main character. The extras can have all the phobias I can think of, because I have seen them in other people, but I have no idea how it is to meet a fear once in a while, having it creep up on you. This is why none of my main characters have fear of snakes, birds, stairs or other things like that. I can do death, loneliness, any social phobia and maybe even love.
Characters are like soap bubbles. You blow then very carefully but once they leave you they do as they please. Some stay some float away to burst – so actually comes back.
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