Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.
I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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