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The importance of fiction:

22:18 / 29.03.06

Fiction is the lifeblood of the everyday grind.

Men and women wake up each day, and toil and sweat and stress over their working lives. And many people feel that the magic of living dies when youth is left behind.

I am lucky enough to know the truth, and understand fiction and its importance in my past and in my future. And I watch as it molds the world around me.

Fiction is a revolution that stands against the decaying forces of time. It re-invents itself with each generation. It unites, it diversifies, and it brings beauty into a forlorn and sometimes sad place that we call our mind. Fiction tickles our hearts and souls. We are the empty cup, and fiction is drink that fills us.

To be a writer is to be a creator. A writer crafts a world, and as we turn the page in his book we are turning a key in the lock to a door in his creation. Writers, builders of great things, guides into the unknown, super heroes, they can create and share anything that they imagine.

With fiction I found the neverland inside myself. The feeling of setting my feet onto the floor each day is the adventure. My world is written by the pen, and through my adolescent explorations of worlds, that some call fiction, I learned that each day is what you make it.

I live in a brave new world. I buy brilliance with hard work and years of experience. I tip my hat to the fiction that I own, the fiction that I built myself with, and I wait for the adventure on the horizon.

23:37 / 29.03.06

BF,

You're still a Bukowski fan, I'm assuming - Accordingly, what do you think the old pissed-up warthog might have made of the above?

04:18 / 30.03.06

I don't really know if buk would like it, but I am sure he would give me some shit for my need to show it here.

05:47 / 30.03.06

The world doesn't need more fiction writers. It needs more plumbers.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

17:09 / 30.03.06

the world doesn't need more plumbers, it needs more participants

--not jack

15:50 / 04.04.06

a life can and should be a work of art, but i'm not sure if it should be a work of fiction. i see fiction as a reflection of life, not as life itself.

00:26 / 05.04.06

i think life is no one thing,and that a few of the threads woven together to make it are fictional.

urban myths that people lead their lives in light of.
money having valuable in and of itself, beyond the paper.
the concept of a 'you' without reference to others.

i could go on, but these are a few examples of fictions that make up life.

i'm not sure its appropriae to criticise the lad's philospophy, though, so i'll stick to the work.

it flows well, but for a piece that is about being a writer and creating shimmering fields, unique to your boundless domain and in which you may walk it... well, it aint shimmering.
'tribute' by tenacious d, innit. you need to evoke the spirit you describe when the spirit is that of your chosen medium.

that, and the last paragraph needs more punch. maybe the last line is missing?
no, i know it isnt actually missing, but maybe it, y'know, is?

15:50 / 05.04.06

Now thats good feedback, well taken, let me shine this shit up a bit and bring it back in a week or so.