Fiction is Happening

I worked on our family’s memoir for four or five years. At the very beginning of that time, I wrote a little fiction, but not in recent years.

 

The memoir is with the editor now, so I’ve been telling myself I should get busy writing fiction again.

 

Finally, last week, it happened. I started a Christmas story about strangers who decided to celebrate together.

 

Then a day or so ago, I had another idea, and I hurried to start writing down the beginning before I forgot what was in my mind. This is a story about a modern-day family trying to survive divorce.

 

Both stories are started on my computer now. I was hesitating to start, worried that I couldn’t do fiction anymore.

 

But, the beginning came easily. Now comes the hard work. I want to keep these stories moving along. I have a folder on my computer with a number of stories that never got past the beginning stages. I don’t want these to end up there.

 

I’m not sure what all will happen in these stories, or how they’ll turn out. But for sure they will help me get back in the groove of writing fiction.