When I think about all the writing I’ve done, and all the writing I have planned, and all the writing I actually want to be doing, it doesn’t exactly line up.

Most of the writing I’ve done has been nonfiction. Blog posts, 2/3 of my books, even the book I’m currently in the middle of, and all of my freelance gigs.

But when I visualize an ideal future, an ideal life, it includes a lot of writing, but very little nonfiction. I imagine conjuring up characters and locations and storylines and events, piecing them all together into some kind of coherent-but-compelling whole.

I have so many books on my shelf (or in a moving box) about writing fiction (and several about writing nonfiction) that just sit there.

In some ways, it’s easier to write nonfiction, especially things like blog posts. But in some ways it’s easier to write fiction, because you can make it all up. But then it has to be internally consistent, so that’s extra work. I suppose it’s about even, but fiction has the added advantage of including the experience of creation in a deeper sense. Which I want to experience more. I think it would be more satisfying.

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