"Aren't people too tired of reality? Don't people read to escape it? If I write something realistic, something that resembles me, I might end up creating a weak, indecisive protagonist."
"So you want to write the opposite of who you are—brave, decisive, hopeful, empowered?"
"Exactly. But how will I write about her? I don't even know her. I've only read her in books, seen her in movies. But I was never her. I've never felt what it is to be her."
"There is a way to combine who you are now and what you want to be, the reality and the ideal."
"Tell me."
"Character development."
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Midnight Monologues
General FictionShe is known as the writer who creates stories about how the concept of love is formulated, explored, and ultimately destroyed by her protagonist, borne out of their relationship with another character. What is not known by many is how much she has...
