If I could magically let you feel what I feel, I know the difference in their skin when my character runs her hands across their bodies.
I don't think she actually literally feels this. "My character," hm. You know, my main characters have no clue how the skin of most other characters in their stories feel. Because the entry level permit into my stories does not include "must rape or be raped by main character." Also, besides hands, people's skin pretty much feels the same to me. Either I am significantly less tactile than I thought or LKH is pretending to understand things she doesn't again.
I would know the smell of Micah's skin, as separate from Nathaniel's in the dark.
Ah, so 1) she doesn't know how they smell now and 2) they only smell different in the dark. Gotcha.
I could hug most of them blind-folded and tell you who it was by the way they would fill my arms.
Whoopdefriggin'doo. I could hug the cast of Cheers blindfolded and tell which was which.
I know the taste, texture, smell, of them the way I know real life lovers, and in some ways better, because my characters don't hide, or withhold like real people can.
You can't withhold your taste, texture, or smell from your lovers, no matter how hard you try. I guess if you bathe in cologne. Still, that this is how she defines lovers is pretty sad. It also makes her sound like she's never had any, but what doesn't?
(Please do not let that last contribute to the rumor that Nathaniel is based on my husband, Jon, because it's not true, but I know my husband better than anyone so he springs to mind for such analogies.)
Pull the other one lady, it's got bells on. But again: you know the smile of a character. Big deal. What's his favorite hobby? What's his main in World of Warcraft? What's his favorite food, drink, and movie? What books does he read? Okay, he probably doesn't read. If she only knows her husband, Jon, her husband as well as she knows Nathaniel, then I pity Jon.
I can "see" the movement of it in my head, to the point where it seems almost wrong that they only exist in my imagination and in my books.
This isn't special. Nearly everyone can do this. Here's what nearly everyone can't do: make characters real to other people as well as to themselves. And LKH, from your purely physical descriptions, it is clear that your characters aren't real even to you.
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I don't want their faces. I have one of my own.
If I could magically let you feel what I feel, I know the difference in their skin when my character runs her hands across their bodies.
I don't think she actually literally feels this. "My character," hm. You know, my main characters have no clue how the skin of most other characters in their stories feel. Because the entry level permit into my stories does not include "must rape or be raped by main character." Also, besides hands, people's skin pretty much feels the same to me. Either I am significantly less tactile than I thought or LKH is pretending to understand things she doesn't again.
I would know the smell of Micah's skin, as separate from Nathaniel's in the dark.
Ah, so 1) she doesn't know how they smell now and 2) they only smell different in the dark. Gotcha.
I could hug most of them blind-folded and tell you who it was by the way they would fill my arms.
Whoopdefriggin'doo. I could hug the cast of Cheers blindfolded and tell which was which.
I know the taste, texture, smell, of them the way I know real life lovers, and in some ways better, because my characters don't hide, or withhold like real people can.
You can't withhold your taste, texture, or smell from your lovers, no matter how hard you try. I guess if you bathe in cologne. Still, that this is how she defines lovers is pretty sad. It also makes her sound like she's never had any, but what doesn't?
(Please do not let that last contribute to the rumor that Nathaniel is based on my husband, Jon, because it's not true, but I know my husband better than anyone so he springs to mind for such analogies.)
Pull the other one lady, it's got bells on. But again: you know the smile of a character. Big deal. What's his favorite hobby? What's his main in World of Warcraft? What's his favorite food, drink, and movie? What books does he read? Okay, he probably doesn't read. If she only knows her husband, Jon, her husband as well as she knows Nathaniel, then I pity Jon.
I can "see" the movement of it in my head, to the point where it seems almost wrong that they only exist in my imagination and in my books.
This isn't special. Nearly everyone can do this. Here's what nearly everyone can't do: make characters real to other people as well as to themselves. And LKH, from your purely physical descriptions, it is clear that your characters aren't real even to you.