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Writer Alec Wilkinson, author of The Ice Balloon, discusses how writers should ask themselves “Is this true?” whenever they write something. Says Wilkinson, “I think any writer who can put something on the page, and say to himself or to herself “Is this true?” and of course you understand I don’t mean literally true, I mean true to some emotion, true to some thought, true to some circumstance that was involved in the creation of whatever piece of prose or poetry you’re working on, I think that if you can satisfactorily answer that question to yourself, you’ve probably got material that will be interesting to a reader.”