The beauty and magic of fiction is writers can use their imagination, which means they don’t have to accept “the journalism” of events – that is, exactly what happened. Writers can transform what “really happened” to fix things, to create a loved version of someone’s life. Or a just version. Or a forgiven version. I’ve used this approach in both my novels. With One Good Mama Bone, the seed of which was given to me by a man who carried a crippling secret since he was a 6-year-old boy, I created a loved version of that little boy’s life. In my new novel, I gave my main character, inspired by a real woman who was the victim of a most unjust act, a just version of her life. To say that this approach brings satisfaction to the writer is an understatement.
The Beauty and Magic of Fiction – It Can Fix Things
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