Should I base characters on myself?

Should I base characters on myself?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: How do I build a character?; Do some characters write themselves?; How can I make a character believable? and more...

I don't think you should base any character upon yourself. however, what you can do is create fictional characters and imbue them with certain of your characteristics. That is how you get close to someone who may be very foreign to you in life. And it's a way of personalizing a character in fiction. To write about your own life is not really what fiction does.