Comments on: Reconciling Story Facts & Timelines in a Novel

By: E. J. Ruek

E. J. Ruek — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:34:08 +0000

Real life, despite its ache and painful trends, does provide elegant fodder. What I am not so sure of is when I’m actually seeing the world of the story in my mind’s eye, both awake and asleep. When asleep, it is as thought a one leads two lives, the sleeping one more exhausting than the waking one. When one is awake, and the mind is full of story scenes, vividly showing across one’s mind in vivid, 3D realness, that then makes for some very sore noses and toes when one walks where there is a door in the story or no obstacle like a chair in the story, only to run straight into the wall or the chair leg in the one wherein one actually resides. Bah!

By: womblin

womblin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:11:25 +0000

I like that you call it your novel writing an addiction. I find myself, even if I am not writing, living in the world of one or other of my stories every waking (and sometimes sleeping) hour. In the supermarket, while out walking, watching my kids doing a dance or play, everything is fodder for whatever novel or short has me captured at that time. Real life = fiction writer’s gain. And yes, it’s addictive too.

By: E. J. Ruek

E. J. Ruek — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:08:51 +0000

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