This brings up another question - is it impossible for you to enjoy a story that goes against or outside your experience? I find this question beyond weird... That is, I deliberately seek out stories that are outside my experience. I pretty much only write stories that are outside my own experience. Why would I want to read about myself & my own life? That's pretty dull. I like my characters & their lives to be as alien and different and fantastical as possible. I like to read about/watch relationships which are complicated and difficult (and where they often try to kill each other).
And... I don't believe that I'm that unusual. I mean - look at the over-identification with Spike. No one is a centuries old vampire legend with a chip & then a soul, who used to be a Victorian poet, and who loves fighting and killing. Yet he speaks to most people.
Which - in a roundabout way - brings me to my point: Surely we love stories because they take us away from our lives? And the way they usually do that is through metaphors - just look at fairy tales, and how we use them to teach children about the world.
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I find this question beyond weird... That is, I deliberately seek out stories that are outside my experience. I pretty much only write stories that are outside my own experience. Why would I want to read about myself & my own life? That's pretty dull. I like my characters & their lives to be as alien and different and fantastical as possible. I like to read about/watch relationships which are complicated and difficult (and where they often try to kill each other).
And... I don't believe that I'm that unusual. I mean - look at the over-identification with Spike. No one is a centuries old vampire legend with a chip & then a soul, who used to be a Victorian poet, and who loves fighting and killing. Yet he speaks to most people.
Which - in a roundabout way - brings me to my point: Surely we love stories because they take us away from our lives? And the way they usually do that is through metaphors - just look at fairy tales, and how we use them to teach children about the world.