Have you ever woken up one morning and felt that the world went nuts while you were sleeping? Lately that pattern has been repeating more often than I care to admit. With the threats to Canadian sovereignty and now the outright violence in Venezuela, nothing seems off the table. I have no sympathy for a dictator like Maduro but as I read in one satirical Thread about the situation, “It’s like if Satan arrested Dracula,“. Boy, has that image stuck in my head. Maybe I should switch from Gaslamp Fantasy to the Dystopian genre? In any case, it’s so easy to get swamped with all this bad news. Is there any way to resist the downward spiral?
The news can be anxiety-inducing and that translates to distraction. I’m still plugging away but the stress can introduce feelings of “What’s the point?” However, regardless of what’s happening in the wider world, stories can hold a special place in our lives. Whether you’re looking for an escape from all your trials and tribulations, or to be informed or even uplifted, stories have been integral to human culture from the beginning. They are one of the primary ways people connect with each other. This applies to all stories, whether high literature or the smuttiest romances.
Now, I don’t presume to the heights of literature like one of my inspirations, Charlotte Bronte. She and her sisters were ground-breaking novelists for their day. Me, I’m just writing the novels I’d like to read and working to find the readers who are looking for my kind of story. Even while the world-at-large seems to overshadow our need to connect through a book, even if our desire for one more fantastic tale to take us away from it all is dismissed, we all know, deep in our bones, that story (fiction and non-fiction) is what make us human and is the foundation to our cultures. Even a modest story like The Witch’s Foundling. Would you agree?
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