Bass, Rick | Rick Bass (essay date 1998)
Rick Bass (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Bass, Rick. “Why the Daily Writing of Fiction Matters.” In Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction, edited by Will Blythe, pp. 74-83. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.
[In the following essay, Bass asserts that fiction writing is important because it sharpens the perceptions and imagination of both the emotional and physical senses, and concludes that fiction has a healing effect on the world.]
I live in a remote valley deep in the woods, and I must confess that when I go into town and encounter someone who asks where I live and what I do, for the longest time it was not entirely with pride that I would tell him or her I was a writer, and a thing I especially did not enjoy admitting was that I was a fiction writer. It seemed to me to be like answering, “Oh, I breathe,” or “I'm a yawner,” or “I look at air a lot.” Hunch-shouldered over a one-dimensional sheet of paper,...
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