“I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.”
-Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
When you are comfortable with someone, you share a story and that story is rooted in your memory.
You can’t tell a story if it isn’t in your memory.
Of course, we need to experience it first so that it becomes a story and that story becomes your memories.
But writers are different because we are visionaries of imagined stories that maybe didn’t happen yet.
That’s the very definition of a novel, it’s kind of new or fresh.
Stories are a vital part of being human that no animal can do.
Even if they are tragic, they can save us.
We writers are artistic visionaries of understanding a situation to enhance a human’s capacity, in which empathy and thinking are what we offer to readers once we show our work.
Mark Tacastacas 
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