Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.