Hi Wildings,
Today is World Storytelling Day.
Which, if we’re being honest, is just a very polite way of celebrating people who make things up—and somehow convince you to care.
I mean, think about it.
Those characters? Don’t exist. That plot? Never actually happened.
And yet—you’re invested.
You stay up too late. You tell yourself “one more chapter” (it’s never one). You get emotionally attached to people who are, objectively, fictional disasters.
You’ve probably yelled at a character at least once.
And still… you come back for more.
That’s the magic of it, I think. A good story doesn’t have to be real. It just has to make you feel like it is.
The tension. The risk.
That moment where everything could fall apart… or finally come together.
Anyway: that’s what I’m doing over here. Making things up. Hoping you feel something.
And if you’ve ever lost sleep over one of my stories…
I regret nothing.
—Jena
