EmilyMiller
Good men did nothing
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Anyone in my stories now knows that they are in them. With one person that was after the fact - bad of me in retrospect (it hadn’t occurred at the time) - but they were cool about it.The one counter-consideration one should think about when doing this is this: Is it reasonably possible that someone who knows you would read the story and identify the character as you, and then identify the other people in the story? It's fine to out oneself; it's not fine to out other people. I assume you are probably careful enough that this isn't a risk, but it's something one should keep in mind when writing stories based on one's real-life experiences.
They found the changes I made to them hilarious actually.
I guess I’m less circumspect where a character is an amalgam of a few people and so less identifiable.
Em