The standard advice is to write about what you do know. But fiction is about the imagination, and imagination means getting from what you know to what you don't know. The great challenge, the great excitement, the great magic of writing fiction is getting out of yourself, and getting into the lives of other characters; into experiences that are not your own, but sort of become your own as you write.
—Graham Swift
delusion? or magic?
Standard causality is demonstrated by reliable repetition and by noting the lack of effect when the proposed cause is removed. But what if there were
another type of causality, independent of (and undetectable by) these objective measures? A correlation which existed only in expectation, or intent? Would this be delusion? Or magic?
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