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Fiction Is A Special Kind Of Magic
Recently, I was reliably informed by someone who will remain nameless, that they didn’t read fiction; that it had absolutely no point, and that it would not add anything to their life.
NO NEED FOR FICTION
Their claim was that there are plenty of factual books out there, and that there was no need for fiction.
As a writer, I took this comment particularly personally. To the person that said it, it was probably nothing more than a throwaway comment, but it wasn’t for me. For me, it felt like, and indeed, it was, someone cutting down my first love.
The thing is that fiction and storytelling in general, have an incredibly important point to them. They allow us to convey things to some people, who might never read a non-fiction, or reference book about the subject.
FICTION ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO READ
Reading is so important, and fiction encourages this in a way the no non-fiction book can. Truthfully, it is far easier to get lost in a story than it is to get lost in the pages of information shown in a non fiction book.
This is not to say that I don’t see the value in non fiction, because I certainly do. I read both types of writing, and enjoy them both in different…
