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The art of fiction writing isn’t a pure imaginable one. 
You see, fiction is the offspring of reality; its roots dig deep in the heart of reality and generates a huge amount of inspiration; so even though we tend to think: ‘This isn’t real, it’s just a story’, we are actually deceiving ourselves, because each and every masterpiece – written by the great fathers of literature – are inspired by real life events. 

Leo Tolstoy served the army with his participation in the ‘Krim-War’ in 1854. So when he was to write ‘War and Peace’ in 1864-1869, one can only imagine how much inspiration he drew from his experiences from that war. Surely ‘War and Peace’ is a piece of fiction – or at least it is considered so, since history doesn’t speak of the imaginary people Leo Tolstoy created in his masterpiece, but then again? – how much ‘fiction’ is it really – when his experiences from reality are actually the ones writing the masterpiece?

If we are to take another writer – artists, we could speak of Edgar Allan Poe, whose life is fully exposed, if one is to read his writings. The poems of Edgar Allan Poe are often mysterious, dull and even scary to some extend, but he was the best in what he did! – No other artist, till this day even, have come near his artistic skills. But, why is that? As I said: his life is fully exposed, if one is to read his writings, but what I forgot to say was: you have to read between the lines. If one knows of E. A. Poe’s personal life, it wouldn’t take long before one sees his personal experiences from ‘reality’ hidden between the unwritten lines. 

I guess what I am trying to say is: – being a writer myself – I don’t believe in the word ‘fiction’, simply because I don’t believe a writer is capable of creating universes inside his head, without inspiration from reality. Surely one could argue against me and say: ‘What about imagination? Couldn’t he just use his imagination? – to that I would answer: No, he can’t.
You mustn’t forget that even our imagination draws inspiration from reality, and once reality is drawn into the equation, then the answer can’t never be pure ‘imagination’ – ‘Fiction’. Unicorns are basically horses – expect they have a horn. Dragons are basically birds, except they are mixed with crocodiles or some other exotic animal. Our imagination isn’t capable of inventing without inspiration from reality. 
If you study literature – and I’m not speaking about ‘Harry Potter’, ’50 Shades of Grey’ or other weak writings – you will see how much an impact reality has on ‘fiction’ – almost to the extend of destroying ‘fiction’ from being to non-being.
Fiction is non-existent. 

(Sorry for the philosophical aspect in this post)