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I recently started a site, Experimental Writing, and published an article about experimental fiction and my upcoming class on writing on experimental fiction in swi magazine. It's now time to sign up for the class that starts mid April.

I was telling my father and his ....girlfriend....that i was writing from the viewpoint of the house for part of my story. and she said--this house DOES talk! She said there are ghosts that walk around when my fiance and I re gone, and she can hear them talking in other rooms. If I hadn't mentioned that, I don't know when she would ever have told me. Now, I might mention the whole thing in my story, make it into even more of a metastory.

In the story I'm writing, I'm writing from the viewpoint of various characters, but also parts of the house, especially because they're infused with the aura of the people who live in it. Some parts of the house are infused more than others. The ones that are less infused are less humanized, and though it's tempting to make them humancentric, it's more interestingly challenging not to.

I'm having fun starting a new fiction piece today, based on truth. My character, me, has some quirky interests, and beliefs, or so they would seem to most people. I take them seriously, though see the humor in how some people would see them.

So, I'm adding that into the story, and playing with the idea that normally, people would read about me and think i'm making fun of my character, that the reader isn't supposed to take me seriously, are supposed to see irony in it. I'm saying it's not so! W… Continue