And it is also about only just one issue: difficulty. And they are certain together by a excess fat rope of issues. Fiction-from children’s make-believe that to folktales to modern drama-is about difficulties. Aristotle was the to start with to observe this, and it is now a staple in English literature courses and imaginative creating manuals. There is a paradox in fiction that was to start with found by Aristotle in the Poetics.