There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

I usually feel something before I know it.

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.