Fiction and Inspiration

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourselves. – Orson Scott Card

Some people find inspiration every where. Some people can see a part of themselves or something applicable to their lives in every story. Other people can see a thinly-veiled biography of themselves and just not get it.

Some of the snootier readers will only read non-fiction, and only the “proper” stuff at that. Well, if they’re so limited that they can’t find something enjoyable about a really good fiction story, that’s their problem. For the rest of us, let’s dive in.

I usually have more words to say what I want to say, a way to make it clearer to people who don’t want to believe the direct truth or who need to be persuaded that something has meaning to their own lives, but I don’t got it for this one other than the above, and the above is pretty awful. So, this once, here’s the short and dirty version, and then good night.

You can find inspiration and meaning anywhere you look or read, and that’s just fine.