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Tattling Tuesday
6 years ago
A little early, but I doubt anyone will care. :)
A weird question I've seen a few times (not that many, so there's not many weird people out there) is if an author has ever had a crush on one of her characters. Yeah, pretty weird question.
For me, the answer is no. While I try to give each of my characters (even the villains) a healthy dose of good qualities (some more than others), I don't make duplicates of specific people. Even when I was younger, I didn't create characters that I'd want to be romantically involved with. I read and write to escape reality, but once I'm done, I need to live in that reality and pursuing imaginary people makes reality more dull and less fulfilling, at least to me. That doesn't mean that I don't pull personality traits from people I love or that you can't say such and such a character isn't roughly based on so and so, but it's never an exact match.
I've only written two characters that I'd never want to meet. I don't want to meet Rana and I don't want to meet the person that attacks <redacted> in book two. Both are darn creepy.
I'd love to meet Chass, he's a personal favorite, and I wouldn't mind sitting down to lunch with Sestus. I'd work for Sajani, but not her mother. I'd love to have been able to console her father when he needed it, but I'd never want to try and raise his daughter.
It's important that an author feel some sort of connection to her characters and I'm not saying that having a crush on one is wrong (weird to me, but not wrong), but I read to make friends, not to find lovers.
A weird question I've seen a few times (not that many, so there's not many weird people out there) is if an author has ever had a crush on one of her characters. Yeah, pretty weird question.
For me, the answer is no. While I try to give each of my characters (even the villains) a healthy dose of good qualities (some more than others), I don't make duplicates of specific people. Even when I was younger, I didn't create characters that I'd want to be romantically involved with. I read and write to escape reality, but once I'm done, I need to live in that reality and pursuing imaginary people makes reality more dull and less fulfilling, at least to me. That doesn't mean that I don't pull personality traits from people I love or that you can't say such and such a character isn't roughly based on so and so, but it's never an exact match.
I've only written two characters that I'd never want to meet. I don't want to meet Rana and I don't want to meet the person that attacks <redacted> in book two. Both are darn creepy.
I'd love to meet Chass, he's a personal favorite, and I wouldn't mind sitting down to lunch with Sestus. I'd work for Sajani, but not her mother. I'd love to have been able to console her father when he needed it, but I'd never want to try and raise his daughter.
It's important that an author feel some sort of connection to her characters and I'm not saying that having a crush on one is wrong (weird to me, but not wrong), but I read to make friends, not to find lovers.
