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<\/a><\/p>\n\nBy Daddy X (ERWA Editor)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \nWhat does fiction do for us? Take us to the outer reaches of \nLife experiences hint at ways a character may behave in a \nWhile I certainly do make up shit, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve \nFact is I\u2019m not really conversant in the very fantastical, \n It\u2019s hard enough to \nClearly, a lot of readers do love these fantasy genres, and \nFeeling one\u2019s way around a created fantasy world is at once \nNoble, in that alternative orderings of the human condition \nFrivolous, for those who lead a more simple existence\u2014even \nDifficult\u2014in that it all has to jibe for the reader.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \nWe mustn\u2019t forget the need for the human mind to create \nThe very complexity of our own way of life seldom makes \nAt times it appears we accept such incongruities in our real \nMy guess is it\u2019s my own laziness, covering for some \nMy lamest excuse would be that at this stage of life, there \nTime better spent writing. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Daddy X (ERWA Editor) What does fiction do for us? Take us to the outer reaches of the universe? To new worlds? Inside technology? To a contrived history of the pyramids? Do we, as writers, first experience our travels in the real world, then relate the trip to our readers? Or do we create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2244],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erotica-readers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe universe? To new worlds? Inside technology? To a contrived history of the
\npyramids? Do we, as writers, first experience our travels in the real world,
\nthen relate the trip to our readers? Or do we create the journey from whole cloth?
\nWhat stimulates a reader\u2019s mental and emotional synapses to trigger a
\nparticular realization the writer has in mind? How to get readers to process
\ninformation the way we intend? Do we acknowledge sophisticated readers by subtle
\ntricks, isolating ourselves from their own interpretations? Or do we hold their
\nhands, explaining everything as we go along, leaving nothing to the reader\u2019s
\nimagination. How do we make it all happen? How to keep it real?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\ngiven circumstance or what reactions may result from certain stimuli. Creating an
\nacceptably realistic scenario is a melding of what we know as fact with what simply
\ncould be. It\u2019s a matter of blending the universally accepted knowable with
\nconjecture. Sounds easy, as long as we\u2019re simply writing what we know, what
\nwe\u2019ve lived. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\never been tempted to write anything too far out. By that I mean crossing erotica with Sci-fi, paranormal,
\nvampires, zombies (ick). I do have a couple thousand words set on another
\nplanet, but there it sits, in the \u2018what next?\u2019 pile. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nexcept for those places I\u2019ve traveled within myself and consequently still within
\nmy world. Doors opened and thresholds were crossed under the influence of
\npsychedelics. Real life, whether interpreted within our conscious minds or not,
\nis all so interesting (and fantastic) that there\u2019s enough internal space to
\nexplore before I\u2019d get to setting up other, unfamiliar, complicated societies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\ngrasp the one we\u2019re living in, for crissakes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nthe artists who create them can be quite affecting. The great storyteller
\nStephen King is one who states the impossible and makes us believe it. The
\nwriters of the \u2018Star Trek\u2019 series, endowed with the innate ability not only to
\ncreate new worlds, technologies, societal patterns, etc. also remembered to
\ntake us along for the ride. As if a phaser was something everybody had in a
\ndrawer somewhere. We felt we understood how warp drive worked. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\na noble, frivolous, and difficult task. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\npotentially reside in the random cards of earthly imagination. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nfolk tales and creation myths, no matter how complex, tend to stay fixed within
\na culture. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nfantasy. Even in the most removed tribes, the otherworldly has a way of
\ncreeping into practical existence even though a moody, introspective state couldn\u2019t
\nbe sustained for long. Not at least without the cooperation of others of like
\nmind. It seems as though there\u2019s a need in our species that requires flights of
\nfancy. Escapism? Metaphor? A need to explore the creative process? This is the
\ngenesis of magical thought. To create an unsubstantiated story to explain who
\nwe are, why we are, and where we come from. Births of religions would fall somewhere
\nwithin this realm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nsense, so why, one may ask, does \u2018real\u2019 matter so much in fiction? Good
\nquestion, but fiction has to make sense relative to itself. Life doesn\u2019t have
\nto follow any rules. A reader\u2019s observation may suggest that a particular outcome
\nof a series of events would be impossible given the information provided. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nlives much easier than we endure errors in our fiction. Reality is a state of flux.
\nIn the real world, we can\u2019t always predict the effect of an action, whereas in
\nthe world of fiction we must. We can surprise, but the surprise must be congruent
\nwith what has come before.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nperceived inadequacy that keeps me from the difficult stuff of research, which
\nwould be necessary to any endeavors in writing the fantastic. Same as a historical
\npiece for that matter, so it\u2019s not just a simple fear of the unknown that keeps
\nme from that noble task. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nisn\u2019t time for researching something outside my experience. After all, I\u2019m still
\na long way from exhausting what I\u2019ve learned thus far. Going forward, it
\nfollows that research into esoteric and non-substantive issues could be a waste
\nof time. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n