[UA] [OT] Fate's Proxies

[Greg Stolze]

>I think it was Greg Stolze, too, who once said that he made his RPG
>characters
>suffer so much so that none of these bad things happen to him in his
>*real* life
>- sort of a proxy for Fate: "Look - I've already suffered all this (even
>if it
>was only in the safe environment of a RPG), so there's no need to dish
>this out
>*again*. Me, I like that idea.

Actually, since then I've clarified that thought about why I write horror
stuff in general -- though I'm not sure it's clear enough to really EXPRESS
yet.  Anyway:

I'm a fearful person.  My many fears tend to have real foci -- myself, my
family, illness, injury -- but they take on amorphous forms.  Existing in
my mind, they've very adaptable, which makes them all the more difficult to
deal with.

Now, if I take that fear and try to capture it in a story, I can't do it.
Static words can't provide that ductile adaptability.  BUT -- the act of
TRYING to put it in a story stabilizes it.  The next time that fear crosses
my mind, it's "the fear narrated" (as in the story) rather than "the fear
itself" (in all its mobile ugliness).

Make any sense at all?  And does it explain why people READ this stuff?

-G.

As it turns out, my memory is far less detail-oriented than my imagination.

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