The Craft: Do You Write Characters or Do You Write People?

[This is part of a continuing series on the art of writing fiction.]

When you write fiction, do you write characters or do you write people? I mean do you write about and through a character or do you write about someone you once knew?

And when you write, say, an action scene…is it something you’re entirely making up in your head? Or is it based on something you once experienced?

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I’ve done both. But lately, I’ve change my thinking on the subject. I used to think, “Well, I’m writing fiction....