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Welcome to the end of time. You have been given an
all-access pass to the collection of angels, mosters and legends caught
in the
space between moments. Thirty moves a second; you see life. All of what
you
hear, the whisper to the whirlwind, just a sliver in the spectrum.
We are wanderers in a world made relative by our own inner being. Lies pass as truth, the truth left to storytellers, as Shamans gathered around the sacred fire, entrancing the young warriors, lost in their own stories. Their own truths. Welcome to the truth. |
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Storytelling is a delicious contradiction of truth. One the one hand, you are telling your audience something that they know is made up. Implied in this is the suspension of disbelief, without which no story would be enjoyable. Perhaps you've sat behind someone in a movie theater who could not suspend their disbelief, nor their impulse to say that couldn't happen!... every two minutes. But I digress... At the same time, even a reasonable suspension of disbelief only goes so far. The art and skill of the storyteller is the ability to make their audience forget their suspension of disbelief, to make them feel as if the story was indeed true, or at least could be. The quest of the story-teller is to create a reality through infusing into their characters, plots and descriptions their own inner truth. The essence of the story is the essence of the truth.
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The writer is the observer. They watch life, its processes, it's goings on. The personalities of those around them, the dynamics of the groups in which they are a part, and those they're not. The writer stands alone in the sea of look at me!'s, unnoticed, unseen. This isn't choice, rather predestination. Observers have a hard time fitting in, separating the part of themselves that watches life from the part that participates. Strong emotions of isolation, the feelings of never being in the middle of it all are what drive the mind to form the words the hands transcribe. A powerful writer is a lonely one. All creative writers must observe. All writers must also participate. Striking the balance is key, and without balance, there is no truth.
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Liam Sweeny |
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