Writers live multiple lives. They can create characters who seem real to their readers. Harry Potter and company, though they're sorcerers, are all too real to millions of viewers and readers. Agent 007 will remain as young and as cool as the actor playing him at any time. The Die Hard Cop will be forever tough.
A lot of novelists live colorful lives, but there are those whose lives are as drab as the grey skies over at Washington State. But when they start to type those words, their little creatures come to life.
I wonder about those writers who can concoct exciting personalities, live them in the blank pages and yet, personally, they don't seem to leap out of the bound books they've written.
Believing in the characters or the plots that writers turn out are acceptable; but readers should not start to live the lives of these imaginary creatures, no matter how brilliantly concocted they are.
1 comment:
Excellent & thoughtful post.
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