GIving of yourself

I was teaching a class the other night and one of the writers was writing a story based around dementia.

My father suffered dementia in the years before his death and the story I was listening to struck home as real.

And why not? Emotion is something of which some readers are wary, preferring to read work without offering too much of themselves. However, for many others, there cannot be fiction without a sense of themselves in it somewhere.

And that’s why this story worked for me

John Dean