When you read (or listen to) a story, most minds create a version of it mentally through the authors descriptions and also build empathy with characters. It's an active not passive, and a creative, process.
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Any non fiction book/story does the same thing for you.
26 letters, some punctuation. All active, not passive.
I question the value of made up stories compared to other forms of writing.
Reading is great, powerful, obviously.
But novels over other forms?
Novels have a certain kind of creativity that stimulates the mind, differently than nonfiction. A good novel arranges the words in a way that collectively pulls you into a different world and selectively makes you gasp at the prose.
"I question the value of made up stories compared to other forms of writing."
You said it yourself: any book will accomplish this. Fiction isn't inherently better - but neither is it inherently worse. There is ZERO basis to the idea that fictional stories have less merit than nonfiction.
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26 letters, some punctuation. All active, not passive.
I question the value of made up stories compared to other forms of writing.
Reading is great, powerful, obviously.
But novels over other forms?
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I hear ya
You said it yourself: any book will accomplish this. Fiction isn't inherently better - but neither is it inherently worse. There is ZERO basis to the idea that fictional stories have less merit than nonfiction.