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本周我想来谈一谈，创意写作中非虚构和虚构的切换体验。 大学毕业以来，我已经有20多年没写过虚构类作品。我的虚构能力几乎生锈了。有一度，我不能直接感受虚构的意义。在UEA读书期间，我才体会到虚构作品里面的真实性。“虚构是另一种意义的真实。” 美国作家和剧作家David Shields在 Reality Hunger 一书中写道： Nonfiction writers imagine. Fiction writers invent. These are fundamentally different acts, performed to different ends. Unlike a fiction reader, whose only task is to imagine, a nonfiction reader is asked to behave more deeply: to imagine, and also to believe. Fiction doesn’t require its readers to believe; in fact, it offers its readers the great freedom of experience without belief —something real life can’t do. Fiction gives us a rhetorical question: “What if this happened?” (The best) nonfiction gives us a statement, something more complex: “This may hav
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