Cinder on Twitter: "@iwelsh I remember having a huge argument with my previous therapist about that once. He claimed that great writers of fiction must by definition have great character and insight into character. I didn't perceive this to be true then, and still don't now. It's a pretty weird belief." / Twitter

pity. I didn't like anything beyond the Belgariad, but I liked that a lot. Probably how good a person you are has nothing to do with how good a book you can write. Would we be better off if they hadn't been allowed to write?

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Okay, so this was a really rough one to write. (content warning) NEWS: It has been revealed that fantasy author David Eddings and his wife were jailed in the 1970s for beating and imprisoning their adopted children thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-has

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I remember having a huge argument with my previous therapist about that once. He claimed that great writers of fiction must by definition have great character and insight into character. I didn't perceive this to be true then, and still don't now. It's a pretty weird belief.

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lots of writers are terrible people. The second part might have /some/ validity, but not the first.

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