Alexander McCall Smith on the intense personal relationships readers form with characters and the ways that complicates the lives of authors.
Here's an article I thought you might find interesting. Click on the title post or description to read it. Here's a quote from it:
". . . the world of fiction and the world of real flesh-and-blood people are not quite as separate as one might imagine. Writing is a moral act: What you write has a real effect on others, often to a rather surprising extent."
". . . the world of fiction and the world of real flesh-and-blood people are not quite as separate as one might imagine. Writing is a moral act: What you write has a real effect on others, often to a rather surprising extent."
Wow, Jessica, that's a hard one to vote on, and it's a good question. I haven't read the article yet, but I will. First I need to think on this for a bit. :)
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't have any real readers yet, though I've got 11 comments on my ABNA entry on Amazon... I loved the article - many thanks for pointing me there.
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