Life in progress

Why I write fiction

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I was sitting here trying to come up with a blog post when I realized it. There’s nothing going on in my real life that’s worth writing. Whenever I came up with something, it was either something I want or something I imagine.

For instance, I was out on my paper route today, looking as I always do for inspiration, and there was this woman walking her dog. From a distance it was an odd looking dog, mostly because it was black and gray and the gray parts of the dog blended in so well with the sidewalk that parts of it were invisible. So, of course, my imagination took over.

What if I woke up one day and no longer recognized things that I should… as though I’d woken up in a different dimension. And what if I saw this dog on my paper route and *gasp* it had four legs?!? Everyone knows that animals all have two or three legs – except birds who of course have four. But imagine that! An animal that resembled a dog except it had FOUR LEGS!

So that’s my life. Dogs with four legs. Exciting stuff, eh?

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Author: Linda G. Hill

There's a writer in here, clawing her way out.

7 thoughts on “Why I write fiction

  1. TamrahJo's avatar

    Hold your hands up in front of them and stare at them until you realize how funny looking hands are – aliens don’t have nothin’ on us…
    😀
    So glad to see I’m not the only one who does this…

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    • TamrahJo's avatar

      Durnnit – “hold your hands up in front of you” – – sheesh! LOL

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar

      Imagination puts colour in what would otherwise be a black and white world, don’t you think? 🙂

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      • TamrahJo's avatar

        Yes – and gives us all these wonderful shades of gray that allows us to be more tolerant and happy-go-lucky…

        😀

        For instance, whenever someone passes me on a double-yellow line, on a hill, I think,
        “Poor guy (gal) they aren’t just trying to make it to the hospital after receiving bad news…”
        🙂
        Cuz if that weren’t true…well….I’d just be cussing for months…

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        • Linda G. Hill's avatar

          While I can think of better ways to get to the hospital in a hurry than in an ambulance after a head-on collision with a transport truck 😛 I do know what you mean.Giving the benefit of the doubt does make the day go by much more smoothly. 🙂

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  2. Paul Davis's avatar

    I’m not entirely sure what I expected, but that was new. I do like the idea of treating our commonly held realities and beliefs like they’re foreign and out of place.

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