“Your consciousness is your contribution to reality. What you perceive as real becomes real.” Rumi In Part One of this topic, I blogged about historical fiction—that is—fact or fiction. Do historical fiction writers tell the...
Read More“Originality is undetected plagiarism.” William Inge T.S. Elliot[1] famously said, “Mediocre writers borrow, great writers steal.” As always, he put it plainly. Ralph Waldo Emerson put it obliquely: “Commit a crime and the earth...
Read More“I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.” Aneurin Bevan Nonfiction writers have, for centuries, published long-form pieces that revealed the personal lives of people—usually with their...
Read More“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.” E.M. Cicoran Ron Hansen’s[1] essay, “The Ethics of Fiction Writing,” is provocative and dead-on: “The first principle of the...
Read More“One must use a brazen lie to convince people of a reality of a higher and deeper order.” Jean Cocteau Over the course of the last thirty years, I’ve written many pieces about truth. Truth in law. Truth in court. Truth by...
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