I’m often accused of my characters doing stupid things & being unlikable, and I know I should just smile and shrug, but today, for some reason, I can’t hold the words in anymore. It's interesting people say that while normal people, in everyday life, do so MANY stupid things 1/7

...and nobody finds it comment-worthy. I sometimes want to scream at the world that they can consider themselves lucky that they can't understand the way a person's mind works when taking decisions after being submitted to narcissistic abuse for a decade, like one of my MC. 2/7

Nobody bats an eye when an ordinary person *in a book* goes on to spit on their (armed) captor’s face then proceeds to kill a dozen villains on their very own. With a bar of soap. After being a librarian for seventeen years. Now that is perfectly likable and relatable! 3/7

Or isn’t it?
I blink, and I stare, and I wonder whether I live in the same world as some of the people who read my books.
Real people behaving like normal people seem to be offensive. My characters make mistakes and have stupid reactions and are afraid of scary things. 4/7

Dear Reader, I respect you, but I also feel happy for you that you can’t understand why characters who were told for years they would never achieve anything praiseworthy can doubt themselves and be weak. 5/7

Not all characters need to wield swords and steal paintings from a museum and fly helicopters even though they were never taught how. I think there is beauty in being normal, and scared, and wrong, and REAL. 6/7

Here. Some subpar recollections from a subpar, self-published author barely anyone has heard about.
I woke up in a bad mood and had no dragons to slay and no helicopters to pilot, so I drew the only sword I know how to wield. 7/7