Basing characters off people you know. Nay or Yay.

Okay. So the last time I updated was Spring Quarter, which is terrible. It is now Fall quarter. (By the way, I never ended up taking Creative Writing. I decided I didn't want that teacher.)

I never used to write characters based off people I know, but more and more recently it's been popping up. It started with the character Devonny from "Get Mad, Baby", which is, essentially, based off myself (Sadly) in my Junior-Senior year of High School. I have since become more of a Kaylehn, which will be popping up in my next one shot. (Not as a main character, mind you.)

But then came Belle, which was Velva, and in the next one-shot, which will be Riley and Logan, if you wonder, both are based off my best friend Taylor and a friend Sean. (Loosely, loosely based on Sean.)

I have heard this is kind of a taboo. A lot of authors don't like doing this, especially since there's this whole issue of your friend finding out and not liking how you portray them. I think, in general, I would not do this in a novel. Because you have to put your characters through situations and force them to do things that aren't necessary fun to read (or write), and a friend might get offended.

One-shots, however, I don't really feel is such a bad thing. Also, lucky for me, I have great friends who trust me when I say that they are only loosely based on them, and in no way am I saying that this is how I view them.

Is this post making any sense? I just got off a plane and I'm a bit frazzled.