Tell Me How It IS

When you present to me your great novel, don’t write your opinion of things – tell me what really happened.

As a reader of novels I’m not really interested in what you thought, knew, understood, realised, believed, wanted, remembered, imagined or desired. I want to know what actually happened without it being filtered through your mind.

As I paraphrase these words of Chuck Palahniuk – author of the novels Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters etc. I’m reminded of something I read not long...