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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 23: Do you think it’s vital for a fiction writer to have empathy?

Personally I think it's vital. Writers might not be able to imagine themselves in place of all their characters, but they need to do it at least for POV characters.

However, we've all read published fiction where the authors seem too distant from their POV characters. That proves empathy isn't vital to write publishable fiction despite my opinion to the contrary.