I guess the way I try to keep one from overloading the other, is by always trying to write characters who feel true and dimensioned, no matter how weird the world (or body, in the case of the werewolf children in St. KR: I know exactly what you mean about the tension between the imaginative and the real. Do you find that the imaginative feeds off the real, or vice-versa? Or both? On a personal note, I ask that because I’ve found in my own writing that one can derail – or take over – the other. PR: Swamplandia! is rich in imaginative detail it’s fantastical, and yet the story encompasses the very real human dramas of loss and economic hardship.
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