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I’m Telling You Straight Out: Fiction Is Fiction Is Fiction
Don’t act so surprised.
Thank you for joining me here today. I know this isn’t a TED Talk, but I’d still like your undivided attention for a few minutes. I promise it won’t take long.
Or, if I’m getting too long-winded for your tastes and you just want the Cliffs Notes version, you can just mosey on over to this little refresher from a few months back:
Really, I should be flattered. My fiction seems to be investing enough to readers who believe this stuff has actually happened. I try not to think too much about it because I don’t want to water down my ideas — and the ensuing stories — in the effort to make the division between reality and fiction crystal clear.
Plus, I get it. Some people just stumble across my stories on Medium with no idea of who I am as a writer or what I’ve written in the past. The flashy-flashy pics and grab-’em-by-the-throat titles I see on here get me too. And more than once I’ve also had to look at someone else’s story and see if the piece is tagged fiction or not…
