Creating Realistic Characters, pt.2

Yesterday I read a post over on darkmediacity.com on originality. This is sometime a major concern with writers. Everyone would like to come up with the consummate original idea.

Personally, I believe that the original idea is more a myth than a fact and those who make the claim on an idea, do so simply out of ignorance. They are simply unaware of the ideas that have influenced the idea they claimed to be original.

Writers put a lot of pressure on themselves to be original.

Although story lines...