I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character I cleave the character in half on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
