You simply have to make them real. Give them quirks that define them from other people. Like George may only drink strawberry milk but he's a...
Prompts. Open a dictionary to a random page. The first word you see is your inspiration, write a poem or a short story or a character...
Why do you live? It's almost an unanswerable question isn't it? You live because you just have to you can't not live because then you'd be nothing...
Separate names with a comma.