The Literary Multiverse

Here’s something interesting to think about (to me, anyway). We’ve all heard that art imitates life. This means that our daily interactions with the world have a profound impact on the stories we tell. Any conversation, person we meet, or situational variance we encounter, can shape whatever scene we’re working on at a given time, and alter its course. Now imagine that your favourite author wrote that book at a different time in his or her life- maybe during a divorce, or a blizzard. It could be a year’s difference, or even a day. The scenes you know and love would surely have come out differently, though the quality of such might have been of an equal caliber.

There could be a multiverse of fiction, yet we split hairs over the smallest of decisions.