Fascinating! Thank you!

I know, I was laughing at myself even as I was shoving laundry in the washer at 10 p.m. :)

I had to do an interview exercise with one of my main characters recently, and as a result I found out (much to my chagrin) that he would find several of my habits really irritating. I felt so bad about it that I immediately started cleaning my house and trying to do better about following through on things. So my fictional character unexpectedly influenced my life; after seeing myself through someone else's eyes - even a fictional person's - I saw more clearly some of the changes I've known for a while I needed to make.