Your August 3-1-1

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Three Updates

One: Are novelists sadists for torturing their imaginary characters?

I made a terrible thing happen to one of my characters. (It had to happen). But it is so tragic that I actually began to weep as I wrote it. Yep, I cried over a fake person. Not once. Not twice. I cried three times in the span of an afternoon.

I don’t consider myself an especially sensitive or emotional person. But I do cry over characters in stories. My imagination is so vivid that these people feel real to me. Sometimes when a long-running tv show ends, I end up grieving. The characters become friends, and when the show ends, it’s like our friendship is over. If you’ve ever watched Halt and Catch Fire, the ending made me ugly cry. It was so beautiful.