Monday, February 9, 2015

Reality vs. writing

I was wondering the other day and I gathered that I was not a writer.
Writers write about anything.
I do write, per se, but my writing is sporadic; and is based on direct experience.
In writing non fiction my motive is to show or find a solution, to say goodbye to a former problem, to create an alternative history, be it better, or worse, than reality...
But it is always based on personal experience.
I am yet to come to terms with this finding.
And I end this post here for I am tired of writing so many I's and my's.
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In the meantime, my gastro short story is in the editing phase.
There are two parts to it. The first part is quite fine I guess. The second one is a bit tougher.
This photo (made by me in Prague, the Czech Republic on July 2014) shows the place where the final paragraph of the first part happens.

Oh, I love that first part.
It is about something that should (might) have happened, while actually it never did. It is a story of a man (a married man) and his platonic lover, who is not his wife.
The second part of the story takes place in a lovely home, in the kitchen to be more specific, between said husband and his wife.
Why is the first part the better one?
Okay, you don't have to answer that :)  :)
But you know what...
Answer I dare you :)
Hee, hee.

5 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

Maybe the first part involves more discovery of feelings while the second part is more a discussion of feelings already discovered.

strugglingwriter said...

I don't know if I'll ever consider myself a writer. I think I'm good at writing fiction, but struggle so greatly at getting myself to actual write.

SzélsőFa said...

Charles,

you know what.
I wanted to tell you that no, no, the first part is somewhat about slightly positive danger, a new, exciting territory, and the second is more of a quiet and peaceful conversation that leads to happiness, but at the end of the day, you just nailed it right.
Thank you!

Strugglingwriter,
hey, it's good to see you here.
I am so sorry I can not comment on your blog.
You are good at writing fiction (judged on what I have read from you).
:)

Thank you guys for the contribution!

Vesper said...

Beautiful bridge... Great place for an ending... or a beginning... :-)

You can say that you're not a professional fiction writer - those write, I guess, no matter what because they have to keep their commitments and deadlines... We (still) have the luxury to write only when inspiration strikes... :-)

SzélsőFa said...

Yay, Vesper!