https://www.maureenbonatch.com/2018/04/why-youll-find-pets-not-people-in-my-books/ Stories with Hocus Pocus & All That Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.maureenbonatch.com/2018/04/why-youll-find-pets-not-people-in-my-books/#comment-7109 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:01:52 +0000 https://www.maureenbonatch.com/?p=3747#comment-7109 “The people who want to find themselves in a book are often envisioning being depicted as the perfect hero or heroine and their ideal self.” That’s one good reason to avoid writing in real people at all, because we’d show them as the imperfect, warts-and-all individuals they are.

]]> https://www.maureenbonatch.com/2018/04/why-youll-find-pets-not-people-in-my-books/#comment-7107 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:11:23 +0000 https://www.maureenbonatch.com/?p=3747#comment-7107 good point that unlike people, animals don’t read.

]]> https://www.maureenbonatch.com/2018/04/why-youll-find-pets-not-people-in-my-books/#comment-7105 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:32:23 +0000 https://www.maureenbonatch.com/?p=3747#comment-7105 Very true about pets not reading. I’m actually excited to write in a pet in an upcoming WIP. I started it during NaNo last year and while I’ve stopped the story for now to work on other things, I’m looking forward to getting back to it and Ms. Priss.

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