Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Some stories are true that never happened.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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