Letters
The stories behind the stories.
Every Friday, a letter worth opening. Notes from Sean on storytelling, strange ideas, and whatever obsession stole his attention this week.
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Film, television, music and theater all gave the job a title and a chair in the room. Publishing decided the chair corrupts the art, and left nobody on the copyright page responsible for whether you finish the book.
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Every dystopia I grew up on had a building you could march on.
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For fifteen years my stories lived on other people’s shelves, sorted by machines that were never going to understand a catalog like mine. This week I’m opening my own, and the asphalt is still wet.
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Real life rarely gives us the bully punched in the face. Stories let us open the door.
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Dickens sold four hundred copies, then invented the machine publishing forgot how to run.
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For four billion years, evolution wrote every draft without an editor. Now humanity can revise the manuscript while we are still living inside it.
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Zombie stories have spent sixty years on the week the world ends. What happens the morning somebody announces it didn’t?
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Rich people have been getting murdered in beautiful places for nearly a century. We may finally have figured out why we enjoy it so much.
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The first story I remember was Grover begging me not to turn the page. I have been turning it ever since.
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