I believe that at the heart of storytelling lie two questions: where do we come from, and where are we going?
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Do you remember being six or seven years old? When I was at school, and it was time to do art, every single person in the class sat down and produced a painting. When it was time for writing, everyone wrote a story or a poem. The annual school play had everyone in it, and [...]
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I recently mentioned escapism as one of the possible functions of fantasy, and have been meaning for some time to elaborate on this by outlining its other functions, as I see them.
Although delivering a narrative in the present tense is by no means a modern technique, its popularity seems to be growing among contemporary novelists.
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In The Idler, No. 84 (Saturday November 24, 1759), Samual Johnson writes that an autobiographer “has at least the first qualification of an historian, the knowledge of the truth.” I disagree, because most of the autobiographies I have read (and the exceptions are very few) have been produced predominantly by the exercise of memory, rather [...]
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