In a previous post, I wrote about the shift I experienced from understanding creativity as something human beings do to something we are. Once I’d started writing fiction, I began to discover whole other layers around what stories are and how they come into being. A few weeks back, I was talking about fiction writing with a friend—hey, Trevor!—and it gave me reason to articulate something I had, until that point, only experienced. Here’s my second attempt at wrapping words around it.

As you’ll see from the about section of this website, writing fiction was something I wanted to do for years before I actually began having a go. Here and there I made a few notes or tried to plot out a story or come up with characters, but I never got as far as actually writing. My memory may be hazy, but it feels as if the change from not writing to writing happened overnight. This change largely, if not completely, came about from a shift in perspective and it’s only in hindsight that I can see how important that shift was.