This has caused us some, shall we call it, professional difficulties. Writing about people who don't exist is different from writing about people who do. We have an ethical code that we follow for friends, relatives, and other people, and those rules do not change when the person involved lives in our head. A lot of stories had to get locked, changed, deleted, or revamped to mesh with our ethical guidelines. A lot of awkward conversations had to be had.
I'd been wondering that. I'd been reading your fiction for some years, and it occurred to me that this would be really complicated for everyone involved. I write fiction, and I avoid writing characters who are recognizable versions of people I know precisely because of the ethical concerns. Having characters you wrote emerge or return as headmates seemed like it would be extremely complicated.
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Date: 2022-10-25 02:24 am (UTC)I'd been wondering that. I'd been reading your fiction for some years, and it occurred to me that this would be really complicated for everyone involved. I write fiction, and I avoid writing characters who are recognizable versions of people I know precisely because of the ethical concerns. Having characters you wrote emerge or return as headmates seemed like it would be extremely complicated.