The emotional growth of your characters is one place where you can use your own experiences much more deeply. If you are writing about the summer between sophomore and junior year, then you can go back to your emotional state of that summer. Was it the summer of heartbreak, angst, rebellion, disappointment, or sorrow? How did you survive and persist? How did your emotions manifest themselves in your interactions with others? What did you learn? How did that one pivotal summer make you grow and change? [...] This will help create characters that are not only believable, but also with whom your readers will empathize.
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Indian-American novelist Kashmira Sheth at http://writingteennovels.com/2013/01/19/combining-personal-experience-and-imagination-for-writing-novels-by-kashmira-sheth
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