Why Every Writer Needs an Alter Ego

How to free yourself by presenting only some of the real you

H. Claire Taylor
The Startup
Published in
6 min readMar 17, 2020

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Stephen King is, presumably, not an axe murderer or even your run-of-the-mill psychopath. And yet, many people I know would be uneasy being in the same room as him. Except it’s not actually him they’re wary of, it’s his alter ego.

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