Fiction Is Risky For Writers Also In

Fiction And Poetry Are My First Loves, But The Really Beautiful Lyrical Essay Can Do So Much That Other Forms Cannot.

Unlike Other Books Or Tv Shows Or Sometimes Life, My Narrative Worlds Are Stripped Of Implicit Moral Centers. There Is Only What You Bring. That Makes The Characters Risky In Every Way And The Narrative, A Journey Of Change For The Reader. But I Make The Journey As Fun As I Can.

The Truth Is, Everything We Know About America, Everything Americans Come To Know About Being American, Isn't From The News. I Live There. We Don't Go Home At The End Of The Day And Think, "well, I Really Know Who I Am Now Because The Wall Street Journal Says That The Stock Exchange Closed At This Many Points." What We Know About How To Be Who We Are Comes From Stories. It Comes From The Novels, The Movies, The Fashion Magazines. It Comes From Popular Culture.

Since I Hold No Judgments Against My Characters, No Matter How Heinous They Might Seem, I Present Them As Real People With Their Own Moral Centers. We Might Feel Those Moral Centers Are Mis-calibrated, But They Are There And Are The Rudders That Propel Them. This Makes Reading My Work A Visceral Roller Coaster, 'cause The Reader Must Embark On The Journey Of The Protagonist Equipped Only With His Or Her Own Moral Center.

What We Know About Who We Are Comes From Stories. It's The Agents Of Our Imagination Who Really Shape Who We Are.