LEXINGTON, Va., April 10 -- Virginia Military Institute issued the following news release:
LEXINGTON, Va. April 10, 2026 -"Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound." -John Gardner.
Ben Bowen '26, an English major at Virginia Military Institute, introduced his honors presentation by disclosing that it is not intended to prove an esthetic point or make a literary argument. Rather "Writing Happy Endings: Practice and Theory" is a work of literature. "I'm simply trying to write a story and tell you why I wrote it," he stated.
Bowen confessed that because he has a deep love for reading, he did not think creative writing would be h...