Comments on: >All Her Children http://www.hbook.com/2010/06/blogs/read-roger/all-her-children/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Shoshana http://www.hbook.com/2010/06/blogs/read-roger/all-her-children/#comment-9925 Shoshana Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:11:32 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3515#comment-9925 >"My only book in which the character is modeled on myself is The Atonement of Mindy Wise (Harcourt, 1991). Of this particular novel, one reviewer wrote that the work's greatest flaw was the fact that the main character was completely unlikeable. I haven't tried to write about myself since."<br /><br />This is why I've set a rule for myself to wait several years before writing about anything personal. It's also part of the reason none of my characters want to be writers. >"My only book in which the character is modeled on myself is The Atonement of Mindy Wise (Harcourt, 1991). Of this particular novel, one reviewer wrote that the work's greatest flaw was the fact that the main character was completely unlikeable. I haven't tried to write about myself since."

This is why I've set a rule for myself to wait several years before writing about anything personal. It's also part of the reason none of my characters want to be writers.

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