Cause and Effect

Tonight, while checking for something in my files, I read the first chapter of one of my stories, in which an autumn rain stars as an important feature. About half way through it, I left the computer to check windows, to make sure rain was not blowing into the house through a window left open. What a shock to discover it was not raining at all in my real world, but only in my fiction. Outside it was a warm September night with the house's windows closed.

The truth is, if such a thing can affect the writer in this way, it will also impress the reader but perhaps not quite so strongly. At least that much of the story must be satisfactory.

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