Date Posted:12:27:13 08/12/10 Thu Author: Fi Subject: In most places, it's considered a bad thing to have imaginary characters talking to you >>> In reply to:
debikm
's message, "Rayne's been talking to me again" on 21:23:04 08/05/10 Thu
...but I can empathize! My characters talk to me all the time. Sometimes they shock me (They're not very politically correct. You'd swear they lived in the past or something).
And I have been literally torturing poor Richard. When I'm doing research on the Amnesty International site to determine the physical and psychological trauma that can be expected, I begin to feel a bit sadistic :o
I can't really help with the losing parent/spouse or being pregnant, since neither had happened to me yet (thankfully in the case of the first, disappointingly in the case of the second). They say "write about what you know", but how boring would that be? Diana's never been an 18th century Scotsman, Tracy Chevalier (author of Girl with a Pearl Earring) has never been a Dutch maid, and Audrey Niffenegger (author of The Time Traveler's Wife) has never been married. Here's to research and imagination!
