John Geddes...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...
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If you want to write about monsters, you should only be able to write about monsters. Because monsters are not real people, and if you write about real people, you will no longer be able to write about monsters. That’s the essence of writing about monsters: the loss of narrative and reality and the acceptance of fiction as a stand-in for reality.
Source: A Familiar Rain
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