However, once the ingredients are mixed into the cake batter, they are no longer removable they become a whole, a cake, that exists as itself. And Ivy’s trepidation about hurting herself is an altogether separate ingredient. But then I ran across a kid whose manner of enacting her ideas I found totally hilarious, so I used that kid to make Ivy, too. And she is like my daughter in her interests and the way she dresses. When I began to write about Ivy, for example, I thought she would be a lot like one of my daughters. So I end up adding extra traits and habits, like ingredients, until Character X no longer resembles Real Person Q at all but does resemble a person who might be real.
Even if I think that Character X is going to be the spitting image of Real Person Q, there is never a one-to-one correlation because reality is awfully inconvenient and because real people are so very odd that Character X would be dismissed by readers as unbelievable. I always find that making a character is like making a cake. You’ve described the creation of your precocious protagonists Ivy and Bean as like making a cake. She is also the co-author, with her aunt, Mary Ann Shaffer, of THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY. Annie Barrows is the author of the Ivy and Bean children’s series, which has sold over 2 million copies, as well as of THE MAGIC HALF.
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