The world is real. Our perception of it is not – it is a construct of the interaction between our senses and the electro-chemical action of our brains. Therefore our experience of the Real World is unreal. This is where writing arises: an attempt to account for that existential disconnect. Sometimes the writer is trying to more perfectly align their experience with the accepted consensus experience of reality. Sometimes the writer is celebrating the singularity of their experience. And every time, the reader is challenged to compare their perception with the writer’s, and the rest of the world’s. Subtle or indiscreet, accidental or intentional, long-form or short, this is life in literature.
Author Bio
Joshua lives and writes at the sufferance of two cats, and with the patient understanding of a sainted wife, in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently rebuilding their 1925 Craftsman Bungalow, bit by tiny, finicky bit. They hike when they can spare the time, and he works to keep them all in home-brewed beer and hard cider (although the cats in all honesty prefer single malt Scotch).