Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction Writing

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."- Ray Bradbury

Sunday, January 27, 2013

"Cleave to the Human Condition"

This is a repost from the blog by Chuck Wendig, terribleminds.com.   It is only an excerpt from a much larger post entitled: "25 Writer Resolutions For 2013".  I felt for the creative nonfiction genre that this specific resolution from the article was particularly good.


"Thing is, we write stories for one reason: to talk about people.  And we read stories because we want to read about people.  Every story is a Rosetta Stone attempting to translate the human condition to the humans gazing upon it with knitted-brow and quizzical sneer.  When we as writers drift away from that, we lose what's powerful about stories: we lose the character.  Stories are written by people, for people, about people."

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