It’s day #3 of Reading Week at the NDD. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
I don’t read fiction very often. I usually am reading non-fiction biographies, histories and science books. I recently wrote my first fictional short story, Sunday in Sunrise, and while it had some elements of myself and my family in it, the story was a fabrication, a fiction. Writing it and reading it revealed things about my life that are obscured at times. Mostly it reinvigorated my sense of being positive, loving, enthusiastic and trusting in my life. It showed me aspects of myself that I have been, want to be and sometimes let slide.
Sometimes, when you are in a parched landscape, a story, whether you write it or read it, can help you see what can be there.What does reading or writing fiction do for you?
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Jessamyn West, 1902-1984, American Writer. A quaker, she was the 2nd cousin of President Nixon and was taught by his father in Sunday School.