luckily the world doesn't have to rely on my brain.

[maygra]

You all owe ellen_fremedon a round of applause and possibly cookies because she's managed to summarize and illustrate some of the issues I've been trying to get to gel in my fractured brain for the last couple of days only it's already taken me 30,000 words and I still haven't managed to make it make sense even to myself.

...and in doing so, she reminded me of something I'd written as a forward to a piece of original fiction a decade or so ago, that could apply to my fan fiction as well as any other fiction I write -- in which I tried to summarize that I do, indeed write with a sense of honesty and responsibility but both of those things are more a matter of me being honest with myself and responsibile to my own moral and ethical principles.

Therefore, enjoy, suspend disbelief and know that while all of this is true, none of it is the Truth.

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[maygra.livejournal.com]

I think both can be held as accurate. Thee is frequently fiction in truth, and just as often, if not more, truth in fiction.

It's a much beleaguered trope, but I've always held this is what Twain meant when he's quoted as saying, Write what you know, because it isn't limited to what we have personally experienced as much as it relates to what we imperfectly understand about the world we live in. And so therefore, what we write is written to the truth, be it simple or complex, internal to the story or external to the writer.

And sometimes, that means the only truth in a story is the one you tell yourself.