It Was All Just A Dream

By Leo Gura - February 10, 2026

I was listening to an expert giving advice on the biggest mistakes in fiction writing. I found it amusing when he said the biggest mistake is to end your story with, “it was all just a dream”. People get pissed when a book or a film ends that way. Why? In his words, “Nothing happened. It undermines any sort of consequences. There has to be consequences. We go all the way back to square one and it’s as if the book never happened.”

It’s so funny that that is exactly how your life works.

The denial of the dream goes so deep that people are even upset when they see it in fiction. Imagine how upset they will be when they realize that their life ends that way.

How ironic that Truth is too strange to be believable in fiction.

Imagine a scientist realizing that all of science was just his personal dream. What a self-own.

So whatever you do, don’t you dare include Awakening in your fiction.

What kills fiction? Truth.

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