This was a delightful author to author chat to celebrate the Inaugural Launch of this bad ass book club, you two! We are not interested in cookie cutter characters and dare i say….popularity polls but would rather dive deeper with characters who are nuanced and reveal the depth of our true humanity without saturating the narrative with the violently deranged or those driven to be so.
So what if we CAN embrace the characters we love to hate because they reflect parts of us and need a page to write it out ….and look at that we have a book that is shaped around a fully realized divine feminine being carving out her Heroines journey via the Labyrinth🙏❤️
Loved this chat! I am still thinking about the book. I loved the discussion about not liking characters. Once at a doctor's appointment, someone asked my oldest who his favorite character in Harry Potter (he's a very big fan, and everyone who meets him knows it). He replied both Voldemort and Harry Potter. Later, I asked him why, and he said that there wouldn't be any action without Voldemort, and then it wouldn't be a good story. I think complex characters with all their humanity, even when we don't like them, can really bring quite the story. I find I need both--sometimes I need a story that is easy in the liking, and sometimes I need something else to stretch me a little bit.
This was a delightful author to author chat to celebrate the Inaugural Launch of this bad ass book club, you two! We are not interested in cookie cutter characters and dare i say….popularity polls but would rather dive deeper with characters who are nuanced and reveal the depth of our true humanity without saturating the narrative with the violently deranged or those driven to be so.
So what if we CAN embrace the characters we love to hate because they reflect parts of us and need a page to write it out ….and look at that we have a book that is shaped around a fully realized divine feminine being carving out her Heroines journey via the Labyrinth🙏❤️
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Loved this chat! I am still thinking about the book. I loved the discussion about not liking characters. Once at a doctor's appointment, someone asked my oldest who his favorite character in Harry Potter (he's a very big fan, and everyone who meets him knows it). He replied both Voldemort and Harry Potter. Later, I asked him why, and he said that there wouldn't be any action without Voldemort, and then it wouldn't be a good story. I think complex characters with all their humanity, even when we don't like them, can really bring quite the story. I find I need both--sometimes I need a story that is easy in the liking, and sometimes I need something else to stretch me a little bit.
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