And most fiction that’s worth reading gets into a kind of emotional or psychic reality…and you can do that without too much slogging through what’s laughingly called “the real world.” You need it to help create the fictional world that you and the reader are going to drop into and get lost in. If you’re talking about lengthy travel, “cussing” as you say, or bathroom breaks, then reality is a touchstone in fiction. How do you address these mundane occurrences in your writings? Reality in my fiction: how important is it? Lengthy travel, cussing, and bathroom breaks happen in real life. And characters who drink or smoke or fight-a staple in classic noir-are now read through the gauze of a therapeutic lens, as people who need help.
The real problem with modern pop culture is that it makes certain things too easy…what would have been an interesting problem for your main character is now solved by the Internet or the smart phone. Modern pop references can either date a piece or, when read years later, make it seem like a very accurate historical novel. How does modern pop culture influence your work? Do modern cultural references date a piece or add touchstones for the reader? I think this says something interesting about humanity, although I’m not sure what, and it also makes me think that many ancient books may have come down to us out of order. I like this question about a “gross fact.” This sort of qualifies-did you know, and I’ve read this somewhere, that it took 50 years after the invention of the printing press before people figured out that they should number pages? So for a half century, anything that was printed didn’t have numbered pages. What’s the most interesting gross fact you know? We chat about first reading experiences, the importance of page numbers, being a news editor in NYC, and plenty more! Also, don’t miss the GIVEAWAY at the end of the post. Folks, it’s my joy to have Ross Klavan on the blog today.
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