Williaminseattle wrote:In my 40 years of life, I have only met one true love, she too died. You captured her personality to the "T" with Clio. Was she someone you knew? She had to be, no one can invent a personality and character like that from scratch.
I would say "tell me about her", but I already know "her".
I love you for bringing her, my Heila, back to life for me.
William
Hello William,
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.
This must be one of the hardest posts I've sat down to answer, and to be honest with you I'm not at all sur how best to do it.
I think that there are certain elements of a book that an author simply shouldn't write about, sometimes because they are of a personal nature, or because to shed light on a part of the process that should really remain dark, because explaination would take away the magic or familiarity or ownership that many readers may feel. I think it's a little like asking a magician how a certain trick is accomplished. Whether I told you a very personal story or explained a technical process in response to this question (I'm being careful not to say which of the two is more correct in this instance), I think the result would be the same - to take away all the different Clios from all the different reader's imaginations and replace them all with one, mine. And that's the absolute last thing I would want to do to my readers, and to my book too, so I'll have to respectfully keep quiet on this one, I'm afraid. Your Clio should stay just as you imagine her :)
S
