Hi Mihai,

First of all, thank you for reading.

I’ve heard agents and editors speak against basing characters on yourself, although I do think it’s impossible to leave your personal traits and views of the world completely out of the picture.

My personal experience is that it didn’t affect my writing well, partly because of never being able to have a clear vision of what I’d do in a situation. It’s like wondering whether you’d go back to save people when Titanic sunk. You can never know for sure how you’d react. You’d like to think you’d react a certain way, but would you really?

Here’s what they say on the WritersLife blog:

“There is the danger of putting too much of oneself into a character and therefore then becoming too attached to them. If you base your protagonist on yourself you might become overly protective of that character. You might not want bad things to happen to them, or might give them too much of your time in which case other characters suffer.”

That being said, it’s not a written-in-stone rule, so do what works for you. :)

Good luck!