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[averyslave]

Strange existential moment that only happens to writers: When you are writing an adult character that's your age, and you suddenly realize that he/she has had a much more accomplished life. And then you realize that almost all of your adult characters are the same way.

And then you hate them for it.

Comments

[fs8gbe]

haha

[sweetjabberwock]

ha, nice! ;)

[mr_tsumi]

Well, but it kinda makes sense. No one wants to read about/see someone who's life is just average. Unless something subsequently extraordinary happens to them. Interesting people either tend to be:
a) extraordinary themselves
b) regular folks in extraordinary circumstances.

It was a sobering thought for me that by the time Alexander the Great was my age, he was dead for four years. Think about that.