Writing Fiction – Weaving a World of Dreams
Sunayan Bhattacharjee: Assistant Professor Centre for Print & Cyber Journalism Skills While the Cambridge Dictionary describes fiction as “the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real people and facts”, the Oxford Dictionary defines the term as “literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.” A fiction can be anything including novels, novellas, flash fictions, short stories, epics, screenplays, plays, streams of consciousness or even poems. Screenplays and plays will be discussed as part of two other distinct topics. The genesis of any fiction is always an idea. While the generation of such an idea is spontaneous, the development of fiction pieces from such ideas follows a standard pattern. At the end of the day, the idea is to narrate a story. While the story is extremely important, the presentation of the story is equally important. How one writes the story de...