Characters: Not In Thine Own Image

A while back a friend – having read some of my unpublished work – asked me how I keep from writing facets of myself instead of actual whole characters. And how I can create “Truly horrible people who are not a part of your own self”?

The easiest answer to that question is that I read a lot of books and watch a lot of TV. I think both of those things can help you to understand character (