I resonate with this so deeply! Stories are a beautiful way to connect both the light and shade in our human experience, but sadly in our commercialized world, what sells is trumping what’s good. How can we get back to stories being beautiful and true, instead of just being sold?
I resonate with this so deeply! Stories are a beautiful way to connect both the light and shade in our human experience, but sadly in our commercialized world, what sells is trumping what’s good. How can we get back to stories being beautiful and true, instead of just being sold?
That's an excellent, complicated question for which I don't have an answer.
Hopefully someday we’ll get there. I appreciate the community of writers and artists on Substack who are trying to help us answer the question!