Writing Characters Based On Real Life People

A question writers get asked often, is whether their characters are based on real people they know? I give my take on this in a short discussion video and talk about two novels (not mine) where this is expressly the case.
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[@bluewordsme2]

lovely....ok, THIS topic is supremely important to me, as a poet especially....for some idiotic reason, people assume when they write or read poetry, that a poem (or collection) must be based on 'real life'---especially the ubiquitous 'I' OR "YOU"....which is nonsensical...maybe because we live in a world, or I live in a world, surrounded by writers and poets who write about their life and experiences endlessly...their suffering...instead of also writing poems that are 'imaginative' or 'works of fiction'...often the 'characters' in my poems are NOT me or people I now, but personae and characters i have created or imagined....or often i will write a poem about an idea, or idea of form, or word, and try to focus on the 'voice' of the character...and i do love playing with the 'voice' and ideas and metaphor and moments of a 'person' im creating...now, of course, my life enters a poem or story, in otherwords, my life in full: what i have see/experienced AND IMAGINED, what i've dreamed up...the books i ve read and films ive seen: all lead to characters and ideas...and when i do right about 'real-life people' (me, my partner, my family, people i know, or people i see around me who i dod not know personally), i try to re-imagine then...to metamorphize them...like Ovid, to sound pretentious...which is why i loathe the term 'auto-fiction' cause all fiction is and is not auto, just as all our life is and is NOT us....we CONSTRUCT memory, we CONSTRUCT experience...we are constructions of everything....anyway, Octopus Man sounds interesting...if you recommend, i will read....i think this is important vid for your readers so that they understand writers or books when they are reading if they are NOT writers...btw, I LOVED the damned Utd, and his other football book (im forgetting the name now)...anyway, for me, what is most important in a book LANGUAGE & CHARCTER....lovely, ttyl, bb

[@MarcNash]

I have nothing to add to this. Well said

[@bluewordsme2]

@@MarcNash forgive my horrible typing errors hahahah...my typing when using a phone is ghastly....have a great weekend, bb

[@spencergrady5501]

Can mute people have character? I guess "inner voice" in those cases?