This post is part of the monthly blog hop/therapy session known as the Insecure Writers Support Group, founded by the one and only, Alex J. Cavanaugh. If you're a writer, insecure, or just supportive of writers—insecure or not—please join us. It happens the first Wednesday of each month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words will be appreciated.
OCTOBER QUESTION:
Have you ever slipped any of your personal information into your characters, either by accident or on purpose?
Hmm?
Let me see...
Have I ever slipped any of my personal information
Into my characters?
Uh, yup **blush, blush**
In fact I wrote a whole 3-book series
In the Humorous Women’s Fiction genre...
(not yet published at the moment)
About a time in my life...
(not that long ago)
When I was single for the first time in my life...
And imagined dating again...
And I gotta tell ya...
Some parts of the story were so personal...
I changed my author name...
To protect my daughters' eyes from burning in their sockets...
In case they ever read it...
Ya see...
It’s not that I did anything criminal in the story...
It’s that the story includes many, eh hem...
Fantasies.
OK!
I fess up!
Sexual fantasies!
That no daughter—or any relative for that matter...
Need ever know about me.
"Say whaaaat?!?!" I hear you exclaim.
But wait!
Before you think weird of me...
It’s was only for research...
Yup, uh huh, research. I swear!
Because all good writers research.A lot!
Well...that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
So?
Ever put some, eh hem **research** into your stores?
Care to share?
Or any other kind of personal info?
Always,
Em-Musing
