The blog, Normal Novelists have-use-enjoy Multiple Personality: Do novelists, themselves, know it? Would they ever say so? Do readers believe it?

Novelists

Some novelists, like many people with multiple personality, simply don’t know they have it, because their regular “host” personality has amnesia for their alternate personalities, while the latter see themselves as other people, not alternate personalities.

Many other novelists have a vague sense that their regular self and their writing self are like two different people, but that is all they know, and all they care to know.

There are novelists who do know that they have multiple personality, but they usually consider it a private matter and nobody else’s business. When a few of these novelists have published books that guardedly revealed their multiple personality, they found that the public would not believe it and did not want to know.

Readers

I have written many posts in this blog to explain multiple personality and what it actually looks like, but since I, myself, never believed in multiple personality until I, knowingly and repeatedly, had seen it clinically, I doubt that most readers of this blog, who have not had that experience, could believe it.

So who reads this blog? Beyond the numbers, the nations, and the posts they visit, I don’t know. Mostly curiosity seekers, I suppose. I assume that very few take it seriously, so far.

Something may come of this blog, eventually. The idea that 90% of novelists and 30% of the general public have a normal version of multiple personality is, potentially, a big deal.

Meanwhile, and in any case, I enjoy it.