Have you ever thought about what fiction is? Probably, such a question may seem surprising: and so everything is clear. Every person throughout his life has to repeatedly create the works he needs for specific purposes - statements, autobiographies, dictations - using not gypsum or clay, not musical notes, not paints, but just a word. At the same time, almost every person will be very surprised if he is told that he thereby created a work of fiction, which is very different from visual art, music and sculpture making. However, everyone understands that a student's essay or dictation is fundamentally different from novels, short stories, news that are created by professional writers. In the works of professionals there is the most important difference - excogitation. But, oddly enough, in a school literature course, you don’t realize the full power of fiction. So using our website in your free time discover fiction for yourself. Look at that by - (read ebook pdf .txt) 📖
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There was nevertheless not even a one in a million chance of him giving up, and it decreased further as things progressed and the characters grew, until they ended up constituting a critical mass, such that giving it up became, very simply, non-negotiable. That had less to do with the fact that he felt sorry for them, since, if along the way they proved to be complete-ly useless, with a heavy heart, he would drop them like a bad habit, which was eventually to happen. Nei-ther was it just the fact that in general he rarely gave up on anything. Or that he’d be embarrassed about not knowing what to tell friends who, every now and again, asked how it was going. It did, however, defi-nitely have something to do with the following two reasons, two reasons which it didn’t take him long to realise, the one with relief and the other with surprise. What were they? Firstly, because he had started from absolute zero, whether he wanted to or not he would improve, and the more he improved the less “improve-ment operations” the text demanded. Secondly, even if his writing was not yet as imaginative as he would have wanted, by and large, it got him high above his imagination. So much, in fact, that he would have a
- You were saying something about “zero waste”?
- Well, I take it back.
The writer is imaginative, not the writing.
Though make-or-break, I’m keeping it (this phrase) only because it’s partly true.
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very difficult time finding a comparable replacement from then on. Now, what in the world he found in it exactly, when it increasingly seemed more like slavery, albeit voluntary, and less than a hobby, was a complete mystery even to him. The proof of that lay in the fact that even if cornered, the most anyone would get out of him was the confession that he was finally doing something that, if we may allow him the expression, “did it” for him.
All right, I understand that you’re lounging at the beach but not to the point to blow everything off. Cheap inventions like “did it for him” won’t wash, mind you.
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Chapter 18
The first thing he did as soon as he turned on his lap-top was correction, alias proofreading. Either way, he considered it far more feasible than writing, to such degree that, had it been up to him, he would extend it
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