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Mark David Gerson
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The MoonQuest
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
Fantasy, in Fact
I didn't realize, as I was letting the first draft of The MoonQuest pour through me, that I was writing a metaphorical memoir...that Toshar, this young man who discovers the power of storytelling and the potency of his own voice, was me and that I was doing it through this, my first attempt at novel-writing. As if that weren’t astounding enough, I later discovered that I had also been writing my first book for writers – also in metaphor and equally unwittingly. Toshar’s astonished description of how the story found him could have been mine, about how The MoonQuest (a story I never planned to tell) found me. It could also serve as the philosophical foundation of everything I have written, coached and taught about writing ever since, which, in the end, always distills down to these four words: “The story knows best!”
Book Excerpt
The MoonQuest
That would be too strange, I thought, stranger even than the story, which had come from I knew not where. As I had opened my mouth, my mind set for a happy, almost dull tale of warmth and contentment, the words that emerged were of peril and cataclysm. It was as though I was the mouthpiece for some powerful instrument beyond my control. As its music sang through me, carrying me where it would, I felt nothing but its rhythms, saw nothing but its revelation. I was the story. The story was me. Only when Yhoshi jabbed me did that other world dissolve into the rains of this one. Or were they different worlds at all?
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