Learning Through Fiction

Sometimes new ideas are best presented in unobtrusive packages. In order to minimize the impact (or perhaps to maximize it, depending on how you look at it) I like to include ideas worth contemplating within the framework of stories.

I know plenty of authors who do this. Every good "self-help" or "change-activating" book includes personal stories and tales of success. But I'm a fiction gal, and tongue-in-cheek fiction at that. I'd rather read a fantasy story over a parable any day. So that's what I write. Fantasy, tongue-in-cheek fiction.

If it  happens to challenge an idea or two, well, so what? It's only fiction... right?

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