Is writing a reality or a fiction?

[cacian]

I must ask this because when piking up a book and reading I feel it is two different motions.

[Danik 2016]

Yes. Something similar happens when one dreams. Only when one reads a book one enters a imaginary world created by someone else.When one dreams one creates an involuntary imaginary world.

[PeterL]

I must ask this because when piking up a book and reading I feel it is two different motions.

Yes, writing is either or both. It is the responsibility of the reader to determine it. You might want to read The Role Of the Reader by Umberto Eco for more along those lines.

[milagros]

Yes. Something similar happens when one dreams. Only when one reads a book one enters a imaginary world created by someone else.When one dreams one creates an involuntary imaginary world.

I agree with you. The reading takes me other countries, epocas, worlds. I feel like if I was one character more.

[ennison]

Well some texts help the reader escape from reality - from boredom, stress, anxiety, fear but some texts make the reader confront reality and induce the above emotions. The feeling of being "in" the story is common with the child reader. The adult reader is less inclined to suspend disbelief for very long and any part that doesn't "fit" causes a jolt. I'm trying to remember when I was last completely lost in a text. Must have been a long time ago ; yonks as we said colloquially when young. Reading is a real act - unless some philosopher suggests otherwise but the process of imagination that might be created by the act of reading, now that is something very interesting.

[ennison]

Although I seem to be answering your query by looking at reading I hope you see it as an answer. If you meant to ask if writing was a "real" job I would say emphatically yes (Me a far far leftie too eh) One of my favorite writers, RC Hutchinson worked initially as a writer of adverts. I can guarantee that if he is still a footnote in literary history a hundred years from now it will be for his novels not his "real" work for Coleman's mustard.

[Eiseabhal]

"Far... far"! I've always seen you as being positioned where extremes meet Ennison. I guess the imagination of the readers is liberated by the writer but the writer herself must be at times, during the creative process be transported as it were into a world of the imagination. Was it Dickens who said he felt sad to part from the characters he had created. I think just sitting here now it could be felt as a terrifying psychological condition to be surrounded by the swirl of such a teeming imagination as Dickens had. Imagine later in life as ones grip on real life slips to be surrounded by a cacophony of spectral beings slipping in and out of one's consciousness. A disturbing thought .