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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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Letters Submitted: Reasons for Rejection or Publication

Letters submitted to this site are automatically forwarded to me, so that I may click either “rejection” or “publication.”

REJECTION OF LETTERS
Unverified Public Figures: If a letter appears to be signed by a published author or any other public figure, how do I know that the letter writer is not an imposter? Letters from public figures must either include a relatively easy way for me to verify the writer’s identity or should be resubmitted anonymously.

Therapy sought: If a letter writer seems to seek a personal diagnosis, a therapeutic response, or a professional referral, the letter must be rejected, because this is not a therapy site.

PUBLICATION OF LETTERS
Addresses issues of a post: The letter asks relevant questions, disputes facts or inferences, and/or adds relevant facts and ideas.

Teaches me something: about literature, fiction writing, and/or psychology. There is a lot I don’t know yet.
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