The more we identify with character, connect with setting, and surrender to the flow of the narrative, the more substantive is the story and the truer it feels. The better a writer understands the essential reality of the material, the more potent the experience is for the reader. Even when we’ve never heard that particular story before, the lexical and symbolic soup, sometimes called culture, we swim in makes certain elements part and parcel of what we recognize as truth.įiction depends on this mantle of story sediment. We recognize the truth of stories because they remind. The walls are permeable, the delineations indistinct, and viscera moves from one to another to another, and so, osmotically, verisimilitude emerges with reference and resonance. Like Matryoshki dolls, they nest inside each other.
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