("...ah yes I like that reply..." went the goblin, adding "...all good things in moderation I guess but my mind is going real chrismashy now...", where oddly the goblin liked the sobriety of boxing day)
repost from elsewhere, chatting with a ghost persona
"...well I'm friendly enough, and if you wish to keep me company I'll be more than happy to accommodate you here..." went the bookless goblin who then produced a table with some chairs for them before placing a lone candle upon it knowing how ghosts do like their candles now, then explaining "...at it's simplest then, those around me upon forums are personas, where the persona is a mask of an alter ego behind it, yet those within me are my "ghosts of the past" as it were, where often I am more writing for my ghosts, who you would say are not real perhaps, than I am for the personas who arguable are real for their being the posters here, why, because I know my ghosts and have to live with them daily whereas the persona I don't know for all their claims...", the goblin rubbed his chin between his forefinger and his thumb, restarting "...so writing is often just dealing with one's ghosts I guess, something quite removed from that publishing world with its merchantization of what is if truth be told little more than grave digging here, yes writing is grave digging in its way, and the more one digs up one's past the more those ghosts just stick around and solidify by it...", at which point the goblin felt like asking if the candle was to the ghost's liking, smiling "...continue in third if you like, use first person if you prefer though, it just needs continuity throughout as the reader remembers that which is constant, ah yes, "livewriting has no rules" as they say but it does seem to have its lessons..."
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