A writer's task is to bridge the gap between their reader's experience and the consciousness of their characters so well that the audience intimately understands the world their protagonists live in, even if that world is utterly fantastical.
This feeling of encountering another world is multifaceted. It can be an imaginary place or a glimpse of another reality. It may also simply exist in the tension between comfort and estrangement.
The best-written stories can make readers feel as if they have passed through mundane states of being and been brought over to another universe entirely.
Each pulls us out of our comfortable understanding of our surroundings, in ways both joyful and unsettling.
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