You may be a fiction writer if:
Cross-posted from The Writers' Vineyard
You may be a fiction writer if:
You may be a fiction writer if:
- You like to daydream. You can sit happily staring out a window, watching the world go by and letting your thoughts wander, kicking up whatever strange ideas they may stumble across. People who bust in on your thoughts (‘I could see you weren’t busy’) are being offensive.
- You conduct conversations in your head with imaginary people - or imagined versions of your family, friends, acquaintances and celebrities. You may have much deeper relationships with the imagined version of a crush, or boss, or your mother than you’ve ever had with the original.
- You find yourself analyzing emotional incidents for a deeper understanding of the motivations and issues at play. There may be diagrams involved - or poetry.
- Someone infuriates you - and your response is to imagine them as the victim in a murder mystery or thriller, horror or suspense plot. Don’t doubt that many a real-life a-hole has died a myriad fictional deaths.