On pg 83-84 Hoffman tells a story of 2 people in a relationship and he tells the thoughts of the woman who has woken up next to the man she’s with. Hoffman shows her thoughts as if she should stay with him and can she be a mother as the man has a child. This could be considered a real story because in today’s society it’s common for people to have relationships with kids from other Marriages or people. As the story he told can also be applied to most people.
Hoffman’s view on writers and boredom is to explain to the reader that most writers have to write about fiction or true events with some truth stretched to make it interesting. The reason the writes do this is because the book would be boring and uninteresting for a casual reader.
Nice response, Emil. I think, too, Hoffmann says that story is a real story b/c it has a character who does things and thinks things. There's sex and conflict in it and we start to wonder about what will happen next. By "real" story, I think he means "traditional" story. Moods is clearly not a traditional story. Is it a story at all?
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