Well "Martin" is a popular Jewish name...it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't his real last name, just because so many people with unsellable last names tend to drop them...Although he may not be practicing, so much as just fascinated by the mythology. Fantasy writers, like any writer, start with what they know, C.S. Lewis being a strict athiest until Tolkien convinced him it was "the one true myth", but this was after the publishing of most of the Narnia series, so...
I don't get the possessiveness of characters, tbh, as long as no profit is being made from "playing with them", it's pretty ego-boosting for me when other people latch onto characters I create with the same zeal I had creating them. It makes me feel like I've done something right as an author in establishing that emotional connection. But I can understand to a point and at least respect if some people are confidant enough in themselves they don't need that kind of reassurance, it's just beyond my own personal perspective.
*nods* I'd considered most of that - and I'd mostly thought, "geez, Kassie. You list Essential Papers On Kabbalah and Essential Papers On Hasidism as two of your favorite books, collect different translations of the Bible and get a kick out of comparing them, and list Moshe Idel as one of your favorite writers when, rather than fiction, he writes books of Judaica scholarship ... and you're surprised that you see Judaism everywhere? I WONDER WHY THIS HAPPENS." But then, with fantasy, it's also (I think) harder to tell where the line between reader projection and author inspiration falls - and it's hard enough with other forms of fiction, unless the author can pinpoint specific "AHA I HAVE AN IDEA" moments or sources of inspiration for … well, everything
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Yeah, I can understand how you might get attached to characters when and before you start roleplaying them, but I think it maybe important for RP writers to understand that they are possessive of their interpretation of the character, not the character themselves. Really being possessive of a character that isn't even yours...smacks me of that high school bs, where "I like ______ you can't like them too or you're copying me!" Which gets old after...the first second.
I don't have much against David Tennant's portrayal of Barty Crouch Jr. His poorly executed, but clever tongue trick was what inspired me to read the series.
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I don't get the possessiveness of characters, tbh, as long as no profit is being made from "playing with them", it's pretty ego-boosting for me when other people latch onto characters I create with the same zeal I had creating them. It makes me feel like I've done something right as an author in establishing that emotional connection. But I can understand to a point and at least respect if some people are confidant enough in themselves they don't need that kind of reassurance, it's just beyond my own personal perspective.
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I don't have much against David Tennant's portrayal of Barty Crouch Jr. His poorly executed, but clever tongue trick was what inspired me to read the series.
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