[TOPIC] In Praise of Purely Fictional Characters

I'm glad my interest is in writing purely fictional characters. It's so much safer.

If you thought the presidential debates were tough, try the Saint Richard III/That Nephew Murdering Bastard debates. I was one of those who discovered Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time and for years would not hear a word said against darling Dickon. I remember one Ghostletters scribe with her episodic tale of a young girl not only in love with but hot for Richard III. That Susan Higginbotham is writing a novel w...