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First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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What's the Point of Being Scared by a Movie?

i think some of our deepest emotions are on the line. One of those emotions s would be love or desire, things that we want. When you were in seventh grade watching those movies, what you were seeing was another aspect of writing and story telling,. These stories want to tell us about the things that we fear. And usually we have enough distance from it so that we can be briefly scared and manage, by being briefly scared, to t get some control over those spers.

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