And it shows up in my fiction. In the new book, it s a mother and daughter who are trying to come to that separation a person needs to come to with their parents. And the daughter is trying to decide whether to stay or to go. The advantage of using fantasy is that it gives me another way of going within and exploring. The magic comes from within them, and they use it to transform their world.
Fiction is a metaphor for life.
People have been doing it since the dawn of time, trying to create sense out of random events. Fiction has always used characters to explain what the world is all about. Fiction gives structure to our lives. It gives meaning, it gives a way of collecting all the little bits and pieces, the things that we give significance. We gather those together, and we create a story we can live with - something that again requires faith and hope.