Okay, thank you. Since I try to be as pragmatic and unromantic about my process as possible, and share your dislike for The Romantic Tortured Artiste, I wasn't sure where I had Gone Wrong in your eyes.
Pt. 3: Your model feels like a scary scary trap to me, and I would hate to think that some of the people I am quite comfortable writing--Whiskey, William Villette, Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, et. al., were in any way aspects of my personality. Rather, I prefer to alienate them, and think of them as modeled personalities. (But then, I prefer, generally, to write people who are very different from me.)
But then, I've been learning cognitive adaptation since I was six years old, more or less, and I am very aware that the me I am is a constructed personality. I suspect that my model works best if one is already intensely alienated, intellectualized, and self-aware.
On the other hand, I accept that your model works for you, and it's a good model for you.
I would never wish you to think that just because I'm pretty sure that if *I* tried it it would lead to flat and flawed characters with no hidden depths, I think it doesn't work for *you.* Obviously it does, and very well.
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Pt. 3: Your model feels like a scary scary trap to me, and I would hate to think that some of the people I am quite comfortable writing--Whiskey, William Villette, Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, et. al., were in any way aspects of my personality. Rather, I prefer to alienate them, and think of them as modeled personalities. (But then, I prefer, generally, to write people who are very different from me.)
But then, I've been learning cognitive adaptation since I was six years old, more or less, and I am very aware that the me I am is a constructed personality. I suspect that my model works best if one is already intensely alienated, intellectualized, and self-aware.
On the other hand, I accept that your model works for you, and it's a good model for you.
I would never wish you to think that just because I'm pretty sure that if *I* tried it it would lead to flat and flawed characters with no hidden depths, I think it doesn't work for *you.* Obviously it does, and very well.