MN> On account of they are all more competent, more confident, more sure
MN> of themselves, etc, etc, etc, than we are in real life.
Absolutely. The characters in my first novel are so superior and 
sophisticated, they would never deign to talk to plain little me. But I 
get the last laugh, because without me they're nothing--quite literally!
Barbara
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