Fiction

I've been writing some fiction lately, so it's taking most of my creative juices these days. Fiction is a much harder genre than fact, but since the two usually blur in fiction, maybe I have no excuse.

Actually, I do.

I'm refining something that's in no way cut and dried. Facts are cut and dried; the interpretations of them are not. While writing about facts is highly subjective--we write about our experience of them more so than about the facts themselves--fiction is ultimately more difficult.

Creating a narrative voice and being true to it takes more time than I'm used to. Most of my writing is in my narrative voice. It's the one I'm used to.

But putting on someone else's skin over mine and trying to capture how they would experience a situation is difficult.

That's why I've not seriously tackled this particular task before.

I'm experimenting, but am happy to report progress.

It's a brave new world for me, and I'll publish the results when I'm happy with the outcome.