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My fave characters (in no particular order) number 16

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Rae Earl

My mad fat diary

Sharon Rooney

Rae Earl is very easy to relate to, as she’s just another teenager struggling with how she feels while she’s growing up. She happens to have a harder time than some of us, in dealing with what she feels, taking the road of physically harming herself, rather than speaking out.

When we first meet her, she’s coming out of a mental hospital, and worrying about how she will reconnect with her mother. It didn’t take long for me to feel a connection with her, helped in no small way by the fact that the writers had chosen to set it in the mid nineties. I was a teenager at that point, and completely loved the soundtrack.

Rae’s into all the same music that I loved back then and still have a fondness for, Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Lightning Seeds, Blackstreet, Black Grape, among others.

I adored her for her humour, which she uses to deal with her insecurities, and anxieties. One particular scene, when she’s just starting to reconnect with her best friend Chloe, and getting to know Chloe’s new friends, takes part at a pool party. Rae gets stuck on the slide set up at pool side, but instead of dying of embarrassment as so many teenage girls, myself included, would have done, she makes it into a joke.

This fan video nails all the reasons why she is one of the best written and most endearing characters that I’ve seen in teen drama for a long time. posted by Alex BnR

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hgolightly1982

I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things. The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at. It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track. I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.

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