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Every fiction writer is a liar. That's why it's fiction. We are asking the reader to believe that a character is real, has real...

Or should we lie to them? Sometimes it seems the truth isn't very valued, and it reminds me of the old saying: "People want a beautiful...

I disagree. A character still has to act within that character's own logic. If they just do random shit and it's never clear why from...

There are different levels of truth in a story. Probably the overriding truth is the writer's subjective truth. A writer must believe...

Chuck Negron passed away Obit Had one of the best opening lines in Rick n roll history. Joy to the World

I don't think I did this. Here are a couple of my previous quotes - And nowhere in my "equation" do I mention anything about the...

Re: Hitler's narcissism (just another moldy orange?). Fair enough, although if social media tells us anything, is that any ideology can...

I think the main emotions that effective demagogic autocrats inflame are fear and hate

Is the thought of a unicorn a real thought?

It's immaterial what an artist is or is not feeling when creating something. It only matters whether a connection is formed between the...

From a letter written by Anaïs Nin, to a seventeen-year-old aspiring author by the name of Leonard W., whom she had taken under her wing...

Jerald's comment had nothing to do with Hitler's politics, because he wasn't told who the artist was. It reflected his impression that...

hey guys, empathy is the ability to share and understand the feelings of others. there is no qualifier on the ability that the feelings...

A comment on this: I found a book of Hitler's art at my local library and showed it to my friend Jerald (whom I mentioned earlier). I...

A piece of writing whose function is merely to communicate, would probably not be art. But a story represents personal expression, and...