Fiction Writing and Writing Fiction

I believe that writing about fiction and writing fiction each requires a knowledge of the other. In order to write about literature, one must know the jargon that goes with academic analysis, for example historical context, as well as the jargon that is associated with fiction, for example genre, plot, and characters. In order to write fiction, one must have the same writing terminology, like characters and plot, in the back of ones’ mind as he or she begins to journey through the imagination, letting it take hold of the writer in order to create in the written world.

Writing fiction has helped me to write better about fiction. I know that from the standpoint of a writer, one of the most common things a writer can do is write about what they know. In this way, I know to look at the historical, cultural, and economic significance of time, place, and history of the writer. With this, I can get a better grasp for the reasons why the writer had his characters behave a certain way, or why the time and place in the story was so important.

For my future career in teaching, I learned that history of not only the writer, but the history of the country as well, is important in understanding why a particular writer wrote what he or she did. When I begin the increasingly growing charge of teaching a class, I will take this knowledge that history plays an important part in reading and comprehending literature.