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Why not write down the characters and their lives and may be turn that into fiction? Especially if they are so interesting. Then this obsessive day-dreaming bec
by sandeepspatil 11y ago
Why not write down the characters and their lives and may be turn that into fiction? Especially if they are so interesting.
Then this obsessive day-dreaming becomes an asset rather than a liability?
- normloman 11y agoDon't a lot of fantasy prone people already do that? It would explain a lot of fan-fiction and con-worlds. That said, most daydreams have an element of wish fulfillment in them, which wouldn't make for good fiction.
- RobertKerans 11y agoI have problems with daydreaming similar to what the article describes (it makes it incredibly difficult for me to work from home [with music the main trigger], though I am getting much better at controlling it), and yeah, most of it is wish fulfilment. Also fan fiction is basically wish fulfilment as well IMO, so that fits as well. (somewhat ironically, the effort to turn that into good fiction would probably fall prey to the same daydreaming problems)
- astine 11y agoThere are a couple of problems with this suggestion. The first is, have you ever read any fan-fiction? Often, the reason these fantasies are so engaging to authors is the same reason they would rather off-putting to others. They're generally self-insert fantasies or power fantasies or wish-fulfillment fantasies. The other problem is that writing often interrupts the fantasy. The flow in one's head is often very different than the flow of a book and that translation process often takes effort, especially if one is prone to revising the fantasy as one goes along. Worse, once a fantasy is done, one might be able to go back and retrieve it. Creative writing and fantasizing are really different 'skills.'