Writing and Morality.

No author is as moral as you would imagine. Most will have self perpetuated a myth of themselves but just hide it very well. Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote reviews for his own books under pseudonyms, until he was well known. I bet most Writers that read this are thinking, Hey I bought that T-shirt before you. Bought it, shot it, ducked it, *******it and wore it later with the stains still on it.

Michael Moorcock, a genius of a writer, wrote many books under various pseudonyms simply so those writers could say what a good writer Mr Moorcock was. LOl- the worry grows when your pseudonym's books sell better than your own. Worse still when a created character has more blog followers than the creator. No wonder most writers end up mad.

Bill Bryson once commented that "All the best writers he had known, swallowed a bullet or too much whisky". I like to think that I keep "the beast" at arms length on a diet of red wine, coffee and exercise but suspect that I am fooling myself.

Creators of fiction do what it says on the tin, create. Not only books and tales but a fiction for themselves. Self perpetuating but none the less a myth.