But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.
I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
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