well i have been thinking about this lately..stories are usually that...just fiction..not real

but i was thinking...could there be a possibility that when an author is writing fiction, he or she may be picking up something from alternate realities or different worlds?

or could it be possible that by writing fiction you actually create an alternate world?

post your thoughts

That's debatable, as when most write fiction some in part is based on reality. Like researching places you go to and finding ways to describe houses, like Victorian, early goth, etc.

I think something does influence the writer. A muse of some sort, simply cause when you get an idea and it takes off, there is no beginning or end. I mean there is, but it's like your characters warp themselves and create their own world in your mind, but also it's an extended part of your imagination, hopes or wishes, or disappointments.

Depends on writer.

As for some authors, I think they pick up on influential energy from maybe those who are really what they write in fiction and they're character shapes up from that person.

Sorta like this boy I knew, wanted to capture his eyes, which were silver grey and bright like a wolfs. It started with eyes and got hair, then got personality. Then had a brother added, and a world, and so on, till it was a long story. Fiction truly, but also based on reality.

I believe every fiction is based on something real. Just try to imagine something, anything at all. The first thing you do is you find something that exists to base your fiction on.

It's the way our brains work, we need to start from what we know. Does this mean that our fiction is real somewhere, somehow? I don't know ... It's possible that a collective world becomes alive. Like the ones created by Tolkien (LotR) or Herbert (Dune) .. or even George Lucas' Star Wars universe, they definitely start leading lives of their own. Other people get fascinated by the universes and start building on them, creating more.

The other way around is tougher in my eyes, that those great writers or creators simply write about something that already exists somewhere. I don't see it working in the amount of detail that is added. Some basic gists might come from vague concepts that passed through the dimensions into their minds but the entire creation being the same. Dunno.