Thank you. And all good fiction screams deep truths about the human condition, even if not empirically true. Same with poetry. John Gardner wrote an excellent book called, On Moral Fiction. If you promise to return it, you can borrow my copy. It's a bit of a stuffy academic work, but I like it.
We write because we must, as you say, whether our words or read or not, the writing to be aware fulfills its purpose. We are all our first readers and sometimes that may be enough. I would love to read on of your stories. I'm thinking of sharing some of mine also. Although I've noticed that stories seem to get fewer responses than poetry or essays. I don't require an audio and rarely listen when one is available.
Id say traditional poetry gets very little traction. I see a lot of drek with hundreds of thousands of likes and followers out there, while I interact with a handful of people. Not much hope for a story of mine if what you say is true. But yes, we write for we must.
Yes, and yes! With fiction you aren’t bound by facts, and it’d just be cool to see where you can go… (second yes if for the audio)
And who says that I'm bound by facts in my poetry?
Fiction is by definition-fiction. Your poetry screams truth…
Thank you. And all good fiction screams deep truths about the human condition, even if not empirically true. Same with poetry. John Gardner wrote an excellent book called, On Moral Fiction. If you promise to return it, you can borrow my copy. It's a bit of a stuffy academic work, but I like it.
We write because we must, as you say, whether our words or read or not, the writing to be aware fulfills its purpose. We are all our first readers and sometimes that may be enough. I would love to read on of your stories. I'm thinking of sharing some of mine also. Although I've noticed that stories seem to get fewer responses than poetry or essays. I don't require an audio and rarely listen when one is available.
Id say traditional poetry gets very little traction. I see a lot of drek with hundreds of thousands of likes and followers out there, while I interact with a handful of people. Not much hope for a story of mine if what you say is true. But yes, we write for we must.