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“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can they cause a similar reaction in the reader.
Through this, the author gets to experience multiple lives. If a character's life flashes before their eyes, it flashes before the author's eyes too, and he or she remembers it as his or her own.
With reading, we get to live other lives vicariously, and this is doubly so with writing. It is like a lucid dream, where we guide the outcome. In this, we don't merely write *about* a character -- we momentarily *become* them, and walk as they walk, think as they think, and do as they do. When we return to our own life, we might return a little shaken, likely a little stronger, hopefully a little wiser.
What is certain is that we return better, because experiencing the lives of others makes us understand their aims and dreams, their fears and foils, the challenges and difficulties, and joys and triumphs, that they face. It helps us grow and empathise, and see all the little pictures that make up the bigger one we see from the omniscience of the narrator.”
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Through this, the author gets to experience multiple lives. If a character's life flashes before their eyes, it flashes before the author's eyes too, and he or she remembers it as his or her own.
With reading, we get to live other lives vicariously, and this is doubly so with writing. It is like a lucid dream, where we guide the outcome. In this, we don't merely write *about* a character -- we momentarily *become* them, and walk as they walk, think as they think, and do as they do. When we return to our own life, we might return a little shaken, likely a little stronger, hopefully a little wiser.
What is certain is that we return better, because experiencing the lives of others makes us understand their aims and dreams, their fears and foils, the challenges and difficulties, and joys and triumphs, that they face. It helps us grow and empathise, and see all the little pictures that make up the bigger one we see from the omniscience of the narrator.”
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“Zeb grinned. “You were the only person I know who’s done it on an occupied police car.”
I glared at him. “If you want to start trading stories, we can start trading stories. As a former member of the Richard Marx Fan Club, you don’t want to start this arms race.”
Zeb smiled meekly around a rib. Agreed.”
“Richard Marx?” Jolene asked.
“He went through an obnoxiously cheerful pop phase. Don’t ask.”
― Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
I glared at him. “If you want to start trading stories, we can start trading stories. As a former member of the Richard Marx Fan Club, you don’t want to start this arms race.”
Zeb smiled meekly around a rib. Agreed.”
“Richard Marx?” Jolene asked.
“He went through an obnoxiously cheerful pop phase. Don’t ask.”
― Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.”
― A Curious Beginning
― A Curious Beginning
“It’s hard being weird. No—it’s hard living in a culture that makes it hard.”
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
“Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.”
― Every Fifteen Minutes
― Every Fifteen Minutes
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