: Re: How do I break away from imitating published works? I don't know if other people wanting to be writers experience this, but I get driven by my obsession. It used to be Hunger Games, then

@Megan928

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What I do in my works is to "cross" my characters (mainly to disguise them). That is, I make a fictitious character half of one person and half of another, so that neither real life character is fully reflected in my fictitious one.

Say you need an artist. In your shoes, I would cross Michelangelo with an artist you actually know. That way, you can write convincingly about an artist while incorporating something of the published or famous one. In one play, I created a minor character named Jemile Walker by crossing "Jamal Wallace" (of "Finding Forrester" fame), with someone I actually knew.

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