I’m so glad you answered this question. I’ve discussed this phenomenon with others several times, but never with a definitive conclusion. Knowing the personal traumas related to these stories only complicates the answer. And yet, you still offed the meta-narrator of Fight Club 2. Are you ever worried you’ve predicted your own death?
Never heard you talk about this before Chuck... What do you do when you're depressed and having doubts about the story your writing? Is talking to other people the way you handle that, combined with workshop?
Well, if we all live within the same single mind (which is an oversimplification of many religious, esoteric, etc. teachings - or even some schools of phychology), this mind may chew on some ideas a little bit more. It may be a bad analogy, but great inventions often emerge at the same time in different places, seeminly independently of each other.
This whole, manifestation thing, does nothing more than potentially prove out that we create our own reality. Strange.
I love your premise testing. I guess I’ve been doing a form of that. Except, I have people read my stuff, get off on their reactions, and then never do anything with it. #selfdestruction
I wonder if the rapidly accelerating rate at which our zeitgeist is getting weirder is making this kind of prophesizing that much more difficult. That was part of what blew me away with Adjustment Day, how on the nose it was given the trends it nailed down had only become apparent maybe one or two years prior to its publication. The author Gary Shteyngart said of writing his dystopian novel Super Sad True Love Story that by the time he'd finished his first draft, he had to rewrite it because the culture had changed that much during the time of writing it (I think he began it in 2006 and published in 2010).
Chuck. I'm not sure if you've heard, but there were two suicides the weekend of September 9th on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. A "Public Ivy" school that has prestigious student body. Another tragedy mirrored by your current serialized novel. Uncanny to say the least.
I’m so glad you answered this question. I’ve discussed this phenomenon with others several times, but never with a definitive conclusion. Knowing the personal traumas related to these stories only complicates the answer. And yet, you still offed the meta-narrator of Fight Club 2. Are you ever worried you’ve predicted your own death?
“And if a story sticks around long enough the chances are that some real-life event will occur that seems to echo it.“
You are the 🐐
Love it, Chuck. I find myself reading Nami Mun's Miles From Nowhere over and over. What's your favorite thing about the book?
Never heard you talk about this before Chuck... What do you do when you're depressed and having doubts about the story your writing? Is talking to other people the way you handle that, combined with workshop?
Man. I had an experience like this once and it scared the hell out of me...
Who else love Mr. P even more for the footnotes to this post?
group-based resonance... Some folks try this style and it sounds like a 4th grade recorder concert. Mr. P. does it and it takes us to the future.
The Lie Factory had a Slack channel. Not revealing Chuck's nickname.
Well, if we all live within the same single mind (which is an oversimplification of many religious, esoteric, etc. teachings - or even some schools of phychology), this mind may chew on some ideas a little bit more. It may be a bad analogy, but great inventions often emerge at the same time in different places, seeminly independently of each other.
Creation of reality by the words we write.
What a treat to be here x
This whole, manifestation thing, does nothing more than potentially prove out that we create our own reality. Strange.
I love your premise testing. I guess I’ve been doing a form of that. Except, I have people read my stuff, get off on their reactions, and then never do anything with it. #selfdestruction
I wonder if the rapidly accelerating rate at which our zeitgeist is getting weirder is making this kind of prophesizing that much more difficult. That was part of what blew me away with Adjustment Day, how on the nose it was given the trends it nailed down had only become apparent maybe one or two years prior to its publication. The author Gary Shteyngart said of writing his dystopian novel Super Sad True Love Story that by the time he'd finished his first draft, he had to rewrite it because the culture had changed that much during the time of writing it (I think he began it in 2006 and published in 2010).
Life imitates art imitates life, it seems.
Chuck. I'm not sure if you've heard, but there were two suicides the weekend of September 9th on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. A "Public Ivy" school that has prestigious student body. Another tragedy mirrored by your current serialized novel. Uncanny to say the least.