She says she knows she can't give them gifts; they're not Real real. But they matter to her, and it may well feel like they make their own story decisions, as Katherine Kurtz said of hers, and many other writers have said of their characters. We build models of other people in our minds; writers build models of fictional people in their minds, and the models may feel like they have their own life, their own integrity.
Though she's more explicitly saying that she doesn't want the emotional response she and readers would get from killing the characters; they're not casually disposable, to her. Like Sherlock Holmes wasn't to his fans, or many other popular characters to theirs.
As for "Anne Ricing herself in the foot"... I don't know, it seemed a pretty sensible rant to me. She's not calling them fools for hating or badmouthing her books, just wondering why they bother, and being a bit smug about sales.
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She says she knows she can't give them gifts; they're not Real real. But they matter to her, and it may well feel like they make their own story decisions, as Katherine Kurtz said of hers, and many other writers have said of their characters. We build models of other people in our minds; writers build models of fictional people in their minds, and the models may feel like they have their own life, their own integrity.
Though she's more explicitly saying that she doesn't want the emotional response she and readers would get from killing the characters; they're not casually disposable, to her. Like Sherlock Holmes wasn't to his fans, or many other popular characters to theirs.
As for "Anne Ricing herself in the foot"... I don't know, it seemed a pretty sensible rant to me. She's not calling them fools for hating or badmouthing her books, just wondering why they bother, and being a bit smug about sales.