I realized that no girl whom I've written about in LG has remained friends
with me for too long afterwards and perhaps I have no right to write about
the people I care about where they can all read it.
Most people don't like characters based on them to have flaws, even if the
flaws are really insightful and well-written-of. I have problems with that
because I always try to show how the characters are flawed so that the
character seems more human, more real, and so the reader empathizes with him
or her.
I have had *loads* of experience with offending people with LG,
because people are never content with my descriptions of them unless I lie
and make them all nicey-nice. I know I'll never be able to describe a single
person accurately, so I pick the single most distinguishing thing about a
person and build a character around it (even naming the character accordingly).
That's as close as I can get to the truth, and for the purposes of my stories
I rarely need the whole truth, only a sliver of it from my own perspective.
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