We writers are an interesting bunch. Our ideas come from a vast number of places. It could be something as simple as the look a stranger gives you at the grocery store or watching a scene play out at the restaurant. Or maybe a song. Or the weather. Or a news story you read on the internet.

Our minds take the smallest of details and spin them into 300-page novels.  It's pretty amazing.

However, how many of you have had people ask, "Are any of your characters based on people you know?"...