Characters of Fiction

When a person writes a novel of a certain era that person has to use the place and time. One can gather information what the main characters were like, whether they were wealthy or poor, whether they were crazy or sane, whether they were exploited or whether they had it very easy or too easy! The person gathers information especially of this period and it could be a very different period than our own, ancient Rome, Medieval Paris, or 19th century Indochina? The she could read all the history of the characters or if it is a famous one read the history that seems to be authentic. One can write part of the story to what these characters lived, what really happened one really can’t know exactly for sure. It is what others say is authentic hopefully in that period of time. Definitely, one has to add more than what one has read in the history of place and time, character(s), in most stories is written in biography of the author who wrote it, especially good if the character lives in the area or has lived there, he knowledge of the people, many times what they still eat, these things rarely change, the traditionally foods, the clothing, music, religions, military or agricultural, architectural knowledge-- whatever is talked about? The person, he or she can indulge greatly into her own biography or very little depending on the material or interest of where the story is going? One has the write of a female main character if one is male or male characters if one is female if one ones to write in the opposite sex? One can be an animal even a plant or even a forest, anything, but it has to be realistic. There are some writers that prefer that type of writing than writing stories that are really memoirs with their own expanded fantasy imagination. Yet, most classics are written in the first person memoir fantasy for one knows the most about the life one is living or lived.