I Had An Epiphany: I Was A

It Was Always Clear To Me That I Would Have To Earn My Readers, Some I Would Have To Find, Some To Create.

I Like To Blow Up This Notion That All We Have To Do As Writers And Artists Is Represent Reality, Which Is Presumably Solid And Self-evident, With No Negotiation Of The Gap Between Myself And The World, Between This Body And This Space, Which Needs Narration To Close It.

An Unjust World Represented As Harmonious Is A Political Position.

It Is So Much Easier To Deal With The Dead Than With The Living. The Dead Are Out Of The Way, Merely Characters From Stories About The Past, Never Again Unreadable, No Misunderstandings Possible, The Pain Coming From Them Stable And Manageable. Nor Do You Have To Explain Yourself To Them, To Justify The Fact Of Your Life.

There's A Social And Human Necessity For Some Kind Of Continuity, But It's Not Axiomatic And Not Something You're Born Into; It's Something You Have To Work At. And One Of The Ways To Work At It - Perhaps The Best - Is Storytelling: Telling Stories About Yourself To Others, Telling Stories About Yourself To Yourself, Telling Stories About Others To Others.