A few weeks ago, I wrote about the idea of meta-fiction and how pervasive it is in pop culture today. So I thought I’d share one of my favorite meta-fiction moments from a novel called Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos:
“That evening, after dinner, Clare went into Cornelia’s bedroom to write what Teo had said to her about being good in her journal. Getting the words right mattered, but so did describing his voice when her talked and capturing the feeling that filled her as he spoke and after he spoke. She thought about that word “capture,” how it put a writer on par with a fur trapper or big-game hunter, and how it implied that stories were whole and roaming around loose in the world, and a writer’s job was to catch them. Except of course that a writer didn’t kill what she caught, didn’t stuff it and hang it on a wall; the point was to keep the stories alive. She felt skeptical about this way of thinking about writing, she decided, but was glad to have considered it.”
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