2. Do you make the players feel as though they can tell you when/if your characters are OOC and upstage the plot? Sometimes that's a factor, you know.

9. I'm not sure I think this is serious, and if it's a joke, amusing, but if you honestly mean it... I'd seriously consider counseling, yeah. Because as wonderful as some of her characters were, they were not real. It seems to me as though the books brought to surface something else that's not at all related, and that's what is upsetting you so much.