The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.
タグ: writing

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
タグ: writing, truth, stories, on-fiction, fiction
In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.
タグ: talk, focus, imagination, failure
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
タグ: does, like, laughter, pain
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
タグ: disappointment, revenge, courage, life
The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion.
タグ: college, others, looking, people
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