A Codicil On True Confessions Of A Writer

William Wordsworth; Portrait by B.R. Haydon

On Thursday I posted a “true confession” as a writer, here, in which I discussed my very first piece of fan fiction: an eight-year-old’s riff on William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils.”

I also noted that, given I was living in tropical Singapore at the time (where daffodils do not occur naturally): “…both my reading of William Wordsworth’s Daffodils and my unshamedly derivative response to the poem were both works of complete imagination—which I personally f...