Word: fictional
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...this way. There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. They always believe it has to be your life or somebody you know or whatever, because that's all they could do, if they could even do that. This is no criticism at all. It's just different kinds of minds. Sure it's based on some things I saw and knew, but other things are just pure fiction...
...talent that the writer has will then be augmented. Like you said, it really comes down to being physical.3.FM: In the book you say that you don’t believe in inspiration or that writing can be taught—which sucks for all of us non-fiction people. But if you can’t teach creative writing, then what do you do in your creative writing class?BJ: I absolutely don’t believe in “inspiration.” Writing begets writing, and the more you read, the more you?...
...irrevocably. The art of fiction deals intimately...
...scientists are beginning to quietly raise the possibility of cooling the planet's fever directly through geoengineering. The principle behind it is straightforward - compensate for an intensified greenhouse effect by reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth - but the techniques seem like pure science fiction. Just a few: using orbital mirrors to bounce sunlight back into space, fertilizing the oceans with iron to amplify their ability to absorb carbon and even painting roofs white to increase solar reflection...
...confessed yesterday that he never was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, as he alleged in his best-selling autobiography, Irrational Exuberance, published last fall. The book's melodramatic descriptions of gray-haired men sitting around large conference tables talking about things like "libor" and "basis points" were "complete fiction," Greenspan now admits. He said he would return the $8.5 million advance he received from his publisher "just as soon as I can get back to the Fed and print it. Oh, wait. I made that up. I've never been inside the Fed in my life. I guess they...