Simon Dillon
Oct 12, 2021

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It is precisely because you don't intend your parallels that they are so potent in your writing. This is the essence of great storytelling - not self-consciously trying to insert messages or ideas, but telling a story with emotional honesty and no agenda. Then what is important to you, what troubles you, what reveals the essence of who you are, is inherent in the text. I write a bit about this principle here, if you're interested, but the point is you already do that wonderfully. You use your pain in the best way possible. :)

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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