Movie Reviews for Writers: I Spit on Your Grave (or Day of the Woman)

As writers, we tend to know our characters deeply, perhaps more deeply than the real-life people around us. Of course, this is only possible because we’ve created them, but it’s true nonetheless. Sometimes, they even become almost real to us, or at least real in our minds. 

When talking with Matthew, the delivery boy from the local grocer, Jennifer shares:

Matthew: Do you live here alone?
Jennifer: All alone with Mary Selby.
Matthew: Mary? Mary… is she in there?
Jennifer: Mary’s right here. She’s a fictional name. She’s the Ieading character in a story I’m going to write here.

To Jenny, Mary wasn’t just a character. She was a sort of roommate. 

For me, characters are more tenants, renting out space in my mind. They live there at least for the duration of the story I’m working on, but often longer.

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