Have you ever participated in a writing workshop? Do you have any critique partners? There can be a phenomena associated with reading multiple (in progress) pieces from an author, namely, you may come to feel like you know
personal things about said author. You may feel you know the author's values, mores, paradigm, family history, and/or sexual/romantic experiences or other aspects of his/her
soul.
I've personally noticed this phenomena with first novels. First novels often seem to be wish-fulfillment adventures. Have you ever seen this?
Is this phenomena a drawback to writing? No. We want to know your soul. Come on, show us. :)
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I very much agree with your premise, Lesley. It's one of the reasons to find the most emotive, creative, supportive, intelligent critique group possible.
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