Hmm, I seem to be logged in under this account for some reason. Eh, what the heck, I'm too lazy to switch over.
I wonder if it's relevant that when Sayers went to marry Wimsey off (and I think she wanted to marry him off to get rid of him and liberate herself to go do something else, not to make him happy, though there's definitely the issue of an author's love for her character), she was stymied into creating good literature by the fact that the sort of woman Wimsey would realistically be happy with refused to marry him under the immediate circumstances. So Sayers had to keep writing until she found their story. Maybe it's a matter of listening closely enough to your characters? I haven't read any of this author's books, but if Sayers had, say, left off at Have His Carcasse, I think everyone would have found the romance direction a relatively unfortunate addition to the series.
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I wonder if it's relevant that when Sayers went to marry Wimsey off (and I think she wanted to marry him off to get rid of him and liberate herself to go do something else, not to make him happy, though there's definitely the issue of an author's love for her character), she was stymied into creating good literature by the fact that the sort of woman Wimsey would realistically be happy with refused to marry him under the immediate circumstances. So Sayers had to keep writing until she found their story. Maybe it's a matter of listening closely enough to your characters? I haven't read any of this author's books, but if Sayers had, say, left off at Have His Carcasse, I think everyone would have found the romance direction a relatively unfortunate addition to the series.