What’s Fiction’s Purpose?

Cynthia Herron Fiction, Writing Leave a Comment

What’s the real purpose of fiction? A few weeks ago, I tweeted:  Fiction is just that. Fiction. Reading it is (and should be) fun. It is a break from reality. An escape. It doesn’t have to make sense, a point, or a literary statement. It can, but it doesn’t have to. When we distort that, we miss the art of …