Hello. This is my first ever blog post on this site. It may only be homework, but I’ll be sure to put some feeling into these as well. Today’s lesson is about writing fiction. This is an amazing ability to have. To write fiction, you simply need a creative thought process and the ability to distinguish letters and words. Personally I think fiction is much greater than non-fiction, because non-fiction has many boundaries, while fiction does not.
These boundaries I’m talking about are all restricted to physical actions though (I would say so, anyways). Even while writing non-fiction, it’s very easy to explain mental processing of characters or these visions that people would never see otherwise. However, you’d never explain how someone blasted doors down with a ray beam from the tip of their finger in a non-fiction story; such an outstanding feat would only be possible in the realm of fiction writing. Some people believe that non-fiction is better though, according to this article. I think the only reason people would be drawn away from fiction would be because of news-type writing. People of today like to know about news and what’s happening in society. Of course, the only way to portray this is usually through non-fiction explanation.
There are a couple of different ways to begin writing fiction. Some people like to brainstorm characters, ideas, plots, etc. and bring it all together at the end. Or, you can simply make stuff up as you go – which is a huge benefit of fiction. It’s boundary free and allows you to do things like that. Personally, I begin a project without hardly thinking about it and then stop shortly into my work; I think about everything so far – if I like it, I give it more though; if I don’t like it, I just scrap the entire idea. When everything can explode at once like that, without any time to stop and think about what you’re putting on paper, you can actually come up with some pretty interesting stuff.
Fiction > Non-fiction. This guy presents a valid argument to the whole thing as well though.
