March 2018

For most of my life, fiction was one of the only things that inspired me. I was a shy kid and young adult and, for me, inhabiting more forthright lives was the ultimate appeal. For that reason I was a fiction junkie, and I used fictional worlds as a placeholder for the real one.

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Have you ever seen a work of fiction with characters that left you unsatisfied, or who just didn’t quite work? If you’re a consumer of fiction then the answer to that questions is probably: yes. But what is it that makes a character unsatisfying to us, and what does it Read more…