Jan Scarbrough on Finding Characters

Do you put people you know into your books?
How many times have I been asked that? The ladies in accounting once asked my husband (then my boy friend) if he was the inspiration for all of my love scenes. He blushed and ducked quickly out of the cubicle.
Robert McKee (author of Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting) talks about this very thing in his presentation at the Chicago RWA convention in 1999. I recently listened again to the tape.
Writers watch people, h...