The Importance of Nurturing Doubt in an Age of Righteousness

Fiction’s gift to us is the ability to live in the “land of ambiguity.”

Grant Faulkner
8 min readFeb 13, 2019

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Stories allow us to live the questions.

I often remark that we’re living in “the Age of Certainty,” although perhaps the better moniker is “the Age of Righteousness.” The two go hand in hand.

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Grant Faulkner

Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month, co-founder of 100 Word Story, writer, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.