If you had asked 2 weeks ago what sorts of things I might be interested in writing, I would’ve told you:

  • articles
  • travel pieces
  • narratives
  • PR/marketing blurbs.

Never would I have said any sort of fiction. Yet in talking with a friend (an aspiring writer herself) yesterday about something from my past, we actually put together an interesting idea for a story. Ideas bounced around in my head on the drive home and by the time I hit the house, I had to start scribbling notes. Key plot points, some questions, character names, possible perspectives/voice.

Dialogue scares me though. More than anything else, the idea of writing dialogue just freaks me right out. My friend offered to help write it, partly to get me through some of the emotional hell of delving into such a dark place from my past. I’ll have to see how she feels about dialogue. ;)
Me, write a fiction story? It would be based very loosely on fact but I think a lot of fiction starts that way – an experience or event spurs the author off in all these other directions. And maybe it’s not SO far off for me to consider it – growing up, creative stories were of great interest to me. I think for some reason now, as an adult, they seem less responsible somehow.

I feel like my life is becoming a mess of twists and turns right now. The closer I get to figuring out what I think I want or who I am, the more I end up off in another direction entirely.

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