I am thinking that there may be a question in here somewhere about whether an individual writer is more comfortable--even more capable--writing about people who are like her or unlike her.
I, obviously, am more comfortable writing about people unlike me. (Which would be Felix.) The only one of my narrators who is deliberately like me (as opposed to the characters who I recognize belatedly are like me--different problem) is Booth, and Booth is in fact in some respects a self-parody. Some of his stories were also very hard to write because he was like me.
So one thing clearly at work here is my comfort zone. Although characters unlike me can also push that envelope, so it's not completely a turtle-like defense mechanism.
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Date: 2006-07-06 01:37 am (UTC)I am thinking that there may be a question in here somewhere about whether an individual writer is more comfortable--even more capable--writing about people who are like her or unlike her.
I, obviously, am more comfortable writing about people unlike me. (Which would be Felix.) The only one of my narrators who is deliberately like me (as opposed to the characters who I recognize belatedly are like me--different problem) is Booth, and Booth is in fact in some respects a self-parody. Some of his stories were also very hard to write because he was like me.
So one thing clearly at work here is my comfort zone. Although characters unlike me can also push that envelope, so it's not completely a turtle-like defense mechanism.