By Annalisa Parent www.annalisaparent.com
The rules of writing are nothing like the rules of real life.
In real life we censor ourselves, leave out the gory or embarrassing or overly personal details of the stories we tell about our daily lives.
In writing, we have to be so brutally honest about the human emotional reality of the situations we portray, we are left feeling exposed–if we have done our job right.
Good writing is– unlike all of the people with which we are surrounded (and even ourselves, if we dared be totally truthful about it)– honest to the point of purity.
Perhaps this is why those of us who love to read have such a deep connection to it: its honesty is such a relief, so compelling, such a breath of fresh air, that we miss the characters-turned-friends once we’ve come to the end of a good yarn.
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