BASIC CONCEPTS

— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.

— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.

— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.

— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.

— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.

— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.

— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.

— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.

— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.

— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.

— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Ernest Hemingway’s Twenty Nicknames and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”: The Mystery of Why These Blog Posts Have Gotten the Most Visits.

For many months, my blog, “Novelists use Normal Version of Multiple Personality,” had been getting its most visits to the post on Doris Lessing’s short story, “To Room Nineteen,” which remains the second most visited post in the blog’s history. More recently, apart from new posts, the most visited post has been the one on Hemingway’s Twenty Nicknames, which is now, far and away, the most visited post in the blog’s history.

Both of these posts are from 2014. They are good posts, but not my best posts. And I can’t account for their popularity. Maybe it is not that these two posts are so popular, but that all my other posts are of interest to relatively few people.

The blog has modest numbers, but they come from around the world: more than fifty countries. In the last month, the most visits have come from China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Philippines, Ukraine, and the USA.
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