For fiction writers - novels, short stories, flash fiction, etc. - whenever you're coming up with a storyline and character base, where does the image of your character come from? What inspires their look? Do you use celebrities as a potential cast list or do you try to think of a wholly original, authentic face and body image? Also, is the image as vivid in your head as, say, the image of someone close to you, or is it a fuzzy depiction?

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Since I write more of the romantic type of novels, looks are important for my characters. I come up with their look various ways. I envision what they should look like, and write their attributes down, or I use pictures of people I clip from magazines, either celebrities on not. Sometimes a picture of a person gives me how the chacater will act. I even use friends, co-workers and passerby people to build a character. I LOVE all my characters even before I write down one word about them. I have to connect with them, from the leads, to the minors, to the backgrounds, all of them.
Do you use celebrities as a potential cast list or do you try to think of a wholly original, authentic face and body image?

For me it's about half and half. I tend to use actors a fair bit - they "play" the character in my head - but there are some that I've pulled from my imagination. I use HeroMachine to physically visualise these ones, just to get a firm picture in my head.

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