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I'm not sure I'll write fiction, but fiction allows a writer to connect the dots while journalists often place the dots down without connecting them.
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This device, the blight of so much contemporary fiction, allows an author to crosscut between a present-day story and a wildly coincidental parallel one that some scholar, detective, witch or psychic has dug up.
Fiction allows for a connection more substantial than the Facebook wall post and more long-lasting than the re-tweeted tweet.
What fiction allows for is a more deliberately curated conception of society's cultural context, a point of reference which we're not typically afforded in real-time and at the human scale.
And almost all of the stories surprised me, with the twists of fate, staggeringly long arms of coincidence, repetition of patterns of the kind that make great case studies and great opera, heroism in people who had been, for most of their lives, contented doormats, uncharacteristic acts that changed everything that followed, all things of which fiction allows us only a little.
Fiction allows me to reach for a deeper, less literal kind of truth.
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
"I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows …" In The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Charlie knows that he's a "freak": "I'm the one who beat up Sean and couldn't stop crying after he did it.
Fiction allows this.
Fiction allows us to dream.
What is it that you value most that fiction allows you that reportorial writing does not?
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