The Opinion Of My Characters Is Not My Opinion

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’ shoes to present them credibly. If I let a racist or misogynist speak in a story, I can’t censor his words. He has to say things I detest because my characters are not the mouthpiece of my world view.</p><p id="dcbf">If your readers don’t understand that, you have to explain it to them.</p><p id="2838">Read my article <i>Don’t Judge Me By What My Characters Say Or Think.</i></p><div id="2e32" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/dont-judge-me-by-what-my-characters-say-or-think-e91d1ec5a65d"> <div> <div> <h2>Don’t judge me by what my characters say or think.</h2> <div><h3>Sometim

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es I get angry emails from readers because they think I am a racist or a sexist or because I have written other…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*hO27vcliB0aiWcgP)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="bf9b"><a href="https://readmedium.com/d855be749e6c?source=post_page-----834577ca2b4a----------------------"><b><i>René Junge</i></b></a><b><i> a published author writing on <a href="https://medium.com/illumination">ILLUMINATION</a>.</i></b></p></article></body>

The Opinion Of My Characters Is Not My Opinion

Not every reader understands that. Sooner or later, you will get a review in which you are held responsible for something one of your characters says or does.

Don’t judge me by what my characters say or think.

Sometimes I get angry emails from readers because they think I am a racist or a sexist or because I have written other…