How do fiction writers bring their characters to life? Esty Heller investigates
We spend most of our lives dealing with the intricate complications that revolve around all things human. We deal with the vast and various sensitivities of the people in our lives. We deal with the issues of those nearest and dearest to us. We’re also expected to contend with the issues of people we barely know. I mean, seriously, we deal with ourselves.
That’s more than enough for most people.
Come along fiction writers, and they willingly fabricate lives and sit in front of computer screens (or windows, or kitchen sinks, or desired exotic locations such as the ocean, although that particular location is mainly reserved for fictitious fiction writers), breaking their heads seeking ideas for how to complicate their fictional characters’ lives.
Nuts, I know.
Don’t ask me why I do it.
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