Q: How does writing speculative fiction affect your daily life (not as a writer but as a person)?
A: Writing speculative fiction—and reading the works of others—is like calisthenics for the imagination. It opens the mind to the fantastic. What if the weather were sentient? What if whales abandoned the ocean for the skies? On a deeper level, writing speculative fiction has increased my curiosity about, and empathy for, other members of the contrary species known as Homo sapiens.
V.G. Campen’s story “Spells for Going Forth by Day”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 5 March 2021.
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