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Blurred lines between reality and fantasy

dazahomestead

Something I've struggled with all my life and still don't understand is the concept of the lines between reality and fantasy. 

I'm a huge Doctor Who fan and it's so much easier to understand that world of fiction then my everyday life.

Big, bright, bold characters with clear defined roles within the story.

Everyday people just don't fit that idea or roles and seem either flat and boring or conversely too complex.

As a child and teenager I'd spend hours alone with my models, figures and my imagination. The characters and stories I created were more real to me than my family or school colleagues.

Even my dear pet piggy Rue is named after a character from a PC game. All my chinchillas are named after characters from Doctor Who too.

I began writing the stories I had created in my late 20's but gave up as writing is difficult for me because it's too slower process and my brain works at 100 miles per hour.

  • in reply to Martian Tom

    I was force fed football at school, maybe that's why I hate it so much now!

  • From the age of 10, when I got my first typewriter, I've been writing.  I write fiction, mainly.  The world inside my head, and the characters and situations I can create out of it, makes much more sense to me than the real world ever did or will ever do.  It's a safe place to go.  An escape from life.

    I love reading and movies, too - but I've never really been a big fan of fantasy.  Strangely, given what I said above, I like realism in fiction.  I write realism, too - and poetry.  Partly, I think, these are my attempt to try to make sense of what I see and feel, and the behaviour of others (I can't remember which writer it was who said 'I write to find out what I know', but that makes sense to me).   I'm also, though, partial to more speculative stuff, like science fiction.  And I love horror and ghost stories, because they're associated with the unknown.  But I was force-fed fantasy at school - like The Hobbit - and never liked it.  Magic and dragons don't do it for me, somehow.