Serious Question about homeliness

My personal opinion is for a book to achieve any kind of success, the writer absolutely needs to live that character. They're breathing their life literally into a mere thought that was once rolling around in their heads. It's pivotal to become her/him and, if it's a romance, they need to fall in love with the hero of the book. When this happens, that's what creates that magic that people talk about. El was Ana. Nicholas Sparks was Noah. Jane Austen was Elizabeth Bennet.

Like actors who say they become their characters while shooting, a writer lives in this world they've created until the last draft is completed. It's absolutely surreal at times--actually, most times.

No, all the time.

~Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable~

Hi TheFilmLuvR, the writer of Fifty Shades, was a happily married television producer wed to a successful television writer. She loved the Twilight novels and used them as a template for her fan fiction. Stephenie Meyer, the author of Twilight, concocted of fantasy of a girl who meets an anti-hero with a dark secret. Jane Austin used it in Pride and Prejudice, Bronte used it in Jane Eyre. E.L. James added sex and BDSM to weave her tale and created the Fifty Shades novels on her blackberry as she took the train back and forth to work. I agree that the writer has to immerse him or herself in the story, but that in no way means that anything in their life is lacking. Authors write what they feel.