I am a pretty fast reader too, but... I guess I consider reading a pure pleasure activity even when it's painful or difficult, whereas writing is more of a love-to-hate activity. (They're both compulsions, though.) There's also a nagging sense of "you are Doing It Wrong" when a writer has a noticeably different take on a character from my own impressions, and it's harder for me to ignore that mismatch if I am already iffy or negative toward the character in question.
I also don't really have the experience of characters "living in my head" which I've heard some writers talk about. I mean, if I'm writing any characters on a regular basis, I do the mental equivalent of constructing little individualized AI programs to consult and poke at to see what might happen in various scenarios, but the programs don't keep running in the background when I'm not paying active attention.
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Date: 2014-12-21 05:23 am (UTC)I also don't really have the experience of characters "living in my head" which I've heard some writers talk about. I mean, if I'm writing any characters on a regular basis, I do the mental equivalent of constructing little individualized AI programs to consult and poke at to see what might happen in various scenarios, but the programs don't keep running in the background when I'm not paying active attention.