Fiction as Real as My Breath.

Posted by Ron Khare on Feb 22, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I’ve been writing so much serious non-fiction I’ve forgotten how to write fun, lighthearted fiction. Or non-fiction, I guess.

I don’t really have any stories to tell. Some people, I’ve seen them, they have stories. Characters, plots, rich new worlds of imagination…. I don’t. My aborted novel is testimony to that – it’s awful not so much due to lack of writing as a lack of clarity. I don’t own the world or the people in it. A half-baked idea without the passion to bring forth real creatures.

To be fair, I don’t care that much. That lack of passion for storytelling goes all the way down – I don’t care so much for it OR for the fact that I don’t care. I imagine some day I’ll have some stories that people might actually want to hear… writing them down would be more of a shortcut for me, a way to get out of repeating myself over and over.

Actually, that’s all writing has ever been for me: A way of getting it down and out so people can read it without bugging me or interrupting me with one of those “but that idea is stupid and would never work” comments. Trust me, I KNOW. I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE PRACITCALITY OF IT. What I do care about is the awesomeness of it.

Ahh… maybe that’s it. The work of fiction, the far-away place and colorful characters do exist for me, but I see them as the future, I see me as the future, living in a place of my own design and construct. I know this person and this place with a intimacy unrivaled even by this day-to-day modern existence. Maybe I could write a sort of “speculative fiction” set in the place I’ve devoted myself to creating.

It’s a concern, as my leanings towards the more epic side of life push me to put someone or something in danger… the protagonist or my place are the two things I would never wish for any harm, or potential harm, to come against. If you know about the “Law of the Attraction” you know my problem with that.

So this leaves either a “romantic comedy” set in this place, which…. eh…. hmm. I’ll have to think about this some more.

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