Setting and its Affects on Fiction/Non-fiction.

What else can I tell you about writing that you do not already even know? Well, it is hard to explain a lot about something so dynamic and limitless than writing, but only the fundamental skills that are involved to keep the craftwork alive. Perhaps the best way to desvribe the rules for writing that I follow, is to simply tell you how I write. I do have different ways of starting the process. as I have explained one way by escaping my surroundings. Sometimes I do that exact opposite, and I focus all my energy on the surroundings of my area. Perhaps it is also be cause Ilike to hone in on certain a[[arations of the past. For example, I have written in the sdeep wilderness, with nothing but a burlap sack acrosss my shoulder, and a notbook and pen in my hand. I have written in a supposed haunted house using an old-fashioned typewriter from the early 20th century. In settings like this, your fiction almost seems to come to life. I do have an active imagination, and I believe it is what makes a writer, but on occasion, I do like to get into the obtuse settings that I draw on about through pages and pages of description.
Now, the way I do start is not so much of judging my surroundings, but rather yet, judge my story, and how my surrounding area will affect the story later on. Perhaps a child's imagination is something one should attempt to keep in touch with while writing, because it can make any normal setting the perfect setting. I also suggest that if one does decide to write, one should write in a comfortable position, rather than write the way one feels will give them the best concentration. In one book I wrote about a famous city, and went into detail about a moorish dock that was the main setting for the chracter's establishment, and thus, I was sitting in my room in the dark, listening to music by several different bands of metal, and having nothing but the glare from the screen of the very laptop I write these words upon now, to guide me to the end.
I feel that setting of the "writing area" is important to the production of the story. A good example of this is in Stephen King's "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft", (which is a book I talked about in an earlier blog) where King tells the story on how he was inspired to write the book Misery. The idea came to him while he was on a plane, and when the plane landed, he wrote a huge chunk of the novel on Ruyard Kipling's desk. This desk was where he himself as an author composed some of his great works. There is even a mention of a desk like that of Kipling's in Misery. This is an example of how setting can become part of your story, even as indirectly as placing in an object. It may even turn your creative writing into something much more than fiction. Sometimes fiction becomes reality when one does not realize a story becomes a testament of their life.
I despise writing fiction, yet I write it well compared to nonfiction and essays. I guess it is because fiction has no limits, and yet, can still feel human in one form or another. I like nonfiction that is so unbelievable, it has to be fiction, yet it is true. Most books I read are reference, or written for refference. Sometimes I take a break, and read fiction, but most times it is historical fiction. Other times I like to write about what I have read, and that in itself, can become fiction. See, at times, there is such a thin line between fiction, and non-fiction, it is hard to esbtablish what is real, and what is not.
Another way of looking at the whole perspective of setting, fiction, and how it can fit to your story. It is important to remember that not everything you write will be affected by you surroundings, no matter how long you have been around that certain setting. It is important to also rembmer that when writing, allow everything to spontaneously start up, but do control the story after a ser amount of time, or it will fly way. I see it as a homing pigeon in training, if you do not train your writing ability, it will fly away, and leave you stranded without your message heard. If you train your writing though, your writing will get to the target auidence, and your "pigeon" will come back for another message.
Writing is not always set on skill, imagination takes you for a ride, and can make your or break your story. If you know how to get your word across, then let your pigeon free. Cause it will pay off for you in the long run.