Because people exhaust us, generally. And because we prefer the ones living inside our own heads.
We are the ones driving to and from work, or school, or the grocery store, listening to the radio and applying the songs to scenes in the movie-versions of our manuscripts.
We work out and choreograph fight scenes in our mind.
We have the capacity to be incredibly kind and conversational to the cashier at Target but only for like four minutes and then we want to be done with people.
We remember you as you were when you inspired us to create a character based on you. Not how you are today. Which may be very, very different.
We think about writing fanfic, or we have written fanfic, and we wonder if it damages our ability to be taken seriously as writers.
We see ads in fashion magazines and create entire backstories for the people featured in the images.
We play dress-up in the mirror, carefully applying lipstick we may never wear in public, to get into our characters' heads.
We sometimes loathe selfies but we hope that ours - the ones we do take - make us look both pretty and pensive. Smart is sexy.
We're in multiple fandoms and we do not take issue with people who like both "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" but for God's sake, people, don't confuse one with the other.
When we are not actively working on a story, we are dreaming up situations for our characters, playing with their histories and their futures. We are listening to playlists we have created for them, trying to get to know them well enough to do them justice in print.
We like coffee. And cats.
If you give us coffee and cats, we might put you in a book.
As a nice person. Like, the hero.
...or maybe this is all just me.
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