You need to have one foot in the dark side, one foot in the light, and your head in reality for your fiction to read real. That’s the first thing I found out while learning to switch from the grit of real life news to the fictional world of religious and conspiracy thrillers.įantasy, conspiracy, and all fiction in fact, are like good comedy.
Even funny fiction and way-out fantasy have to have a dark side to feel real. Rose-colored glasses don’t work if you’re a reporter (like me), and they really don’t work if you are, or want to be, a novelist (like the other me). I decided it was just better to look straight ahead. Both views distorted reality so I threw them away.
I once had a pair of rose-colored glasses, but the thing is? They kept sliding south forcing me to only look down at the dirt on the street, or, worse, to only look up to at the clouds in the sky-just to keep them on. Should You Use Rose-Colored Glasses in Fiction? You can learn more about Linda and the Alessandra Russo series at and by following her on Facebook and Twitter. She was named “One of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in NYC” and has won numerous awards including Best Columnist by the Newswomen’s Club of NY, Best Humor Columnist, and Woman of the Year by the Boys Town of Italy for her charitable work such as driving a tractor-trailer in an 18-truck convoy from NYC to the gulf states with relief supplies for Hurricane Katrina victims. Stasi, who has also authored five nonfiction books, has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, and many others. Stasi’s anxiously awaited sequel, Book of Judas, has received acclaim from mega bestselling authors such as Sherrilyn Kenyon, who calls it, “An innovative masterpiece!” Stasi’s first novel, The Sixth Station, was selected as a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, and was hailed as, “A helluva religious thriller,” by Nelson DeMille, while Steve Berry said, “You’ll be grabbing the pages so tight your knuckles will turn white!” Linda Stasi, the popular columnist for the New York Daily News–her Wednesday and full-page Sunday columns have reached more than 600,000 in a single day–and previously for the New York Post, is also an on-camera TV co-host with Mark Simone on NY 1 -Spectrum “What a Week!” Please welcome New York Daily News columnist and novelist Linda Stasi to Writer Unboxed today, to talk about grit and realism in fiction - and the effect of Real Life.
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