Out of Character
How much of ourselves do we put into our fictional characters?
“You just have to write what you know.”
“You just have to find your voice.”
Yeah, yeah.
When I was a young writer, in equal parts terrified and excited by the prospect of being read, I gobbled up axioms like these, believing that they held glistening droplets of wisdom. If only I could decode them.
But what the hell DID I know? I was an insecure nerd from g…
