Does every writer have to deal with this shit? Or do I just live in an area with a high rate of crazy people who think novelists are all writing about them?

Does every writer have to deal with this shit?

Or do I just live in an area with a high rate of crazy people who think novelists are all writing about them?

I had a weird encounter today. A woman comes over to me and starts yelling at me saying:

"You gotta stop writing down everything I do! I don't need you chronicallizing my life! You gotta get over this obsession with taking notes of my entire life!"

Then continues on her way, leaving me to ask myself:

What is she talking about?

When have I ever written down anything she did?

How am I chronicalizing her life?

When have I taken notes on her life?

I know her name but I know nothing about her or her life, so how am I obsessing with her?

I am so confused. She's done this before. Same woman. Same accusation. Frequently. As in she yells these same accusations at me 3 or 4 times a year for well over a decade now. And every time she does it I am always left wondering the same questions.

What is she talking about?

Why does she think I'm writing about her?

What have I written that she has parinoidly concluded was about her?

I simply can not figure out what it is she is talking about.

And as before, she did not reference anything specific that I wrote, so I can not point to which novel she thinks is about her, which novella she thinks is about her, which short story she thinks is about her, which of my Elves or Faeries or MerFolk she thinks is supposed to be a representation of her.

And sadly, this is such a common thing too. Common as in, she is only one of DOZENS of locals who show up in my yard, in my driveway, when walking my dog, at the park, at the store, any place I go, who storm up to me and accuse my novels or novellas or short stories or any one of dozens of my fictional characters of being based off them or their life.

It happens 5 to 10 times a month, with as many different people doing it.

I have to ask my other author friends: do people do this to you too?

How is it that think a pregnant male Elf or an undead Lich Faerie or a time travelling Satyr or a deep sea dwelling Mermaid, living in a lighthouse that is worn on the back of a giant hermit crab, in a zombie apocalypse on a planet in the other side of the galaxy…

…how do people read that and get it into their heads that any of those characters is based off themselves or that the lives of my fictional characters is based off of their lives?

I don't get it.

Clearly these people can not tell the difference between reality and fiction.

Worse part is: I have been bedridden for 12 years, with a broken spine, have had zero contact with the outside world at all for over a decade, and it has only been the last two years that I am starting to walk again, and am only able to walk a few hundred feet a day… meaning I have zero clue anything about the lives of ANYONE AT ALL, let alone these people who are not even a part of my life.

What bothers me is not the fact that people are too stupid to know fantasy fiction novels are not real, but rather, what bothers me is these delusional paranoid people are so angry and so convinced that my characters are them, that they took the initiative to find out where I live, where I shop, where I walk my dog, and come yell at me in person.

That's deep super crazy stalker level bat shit crazy when they go out of their way to find out where I live so they can come hunt me down in person to yell at me, accusing me of writing about them, when I don't even know them or their lives, so how could I possibly write about them at all?

Are these people just mega narcissists and think EVERY writer is writing about them?

What is it with people like this?

Why do they do this?

Why is it so many people think I am writing about them?

Are there more social media accounts impersonating me that ARE talking about them, so they THINK I'm writing about them when I'm not? The FBI agent investigating my son's murder HAS found 27 (twenty-seven) FaceBook accounts and 33 (thirty-three) Reddit accounts impersonating me, all of whom the FBI thinks are friends and family of the woman who murdered my son and severed my spine (both on November 14, 2013 at BugLight Lighthouse at SMCC), and those accounts WHERE going full super crazy gossip mode about people, but all where people I had never heard of before and had no clue who they were.

Its certainly possible there are more of these impersonation accounts out there that the FBI agents have not yet found. Could THIS be what is happening?

I don't know.

I don't write non-fiction at all, so I can't figure out what these people keep talking about, why they keep accusing me of writing about them.

I write the Epic Fantasy genre (same genre as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter) and all my books are about elves and faeries and wizards and dragons, so I can't figure out what these people are referencing when they say I am writing about them.

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BoomFuzzy, the Unicorn Lich King of the UnSeelie Court, is Quaraun's dead husband. Technically dead. Officially terrifying. Unofficially the best baker left in the apocalypse.

GhoulSpawn, their brilliant, baffled companion, fell through time from 1978 and never found the way home. Now he juggles tech repairs, running from zombies, and being madly in love with the two most dangerous men of the apocalypse.

This is a collection of short stories. Quiet ones. Weird ones. Possibly haunted ones. Mostly, it's about what happens when the end of the world knocks… and someone still has to do the laundry.

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