The Stories We Tell Ourselves
How fiction shapes reality for both writer and reader
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8 min readAug 19, 2022
If you tell some people you’re a fiction writer, they think you live in the land of make believe. You’re a dreamer, an entertainer at best. Yes, we fiction writers like to dream, both while we’re awake and asleep. Sure, we like to indulge in our fantasies. And of course, we like to escape. However, there is a much greater…
