I've always been told to write what you know. And I do, to a point. Obviously, every now and then I have to write from research or from someone else's knowledge, because I can only know so much. However, have you ever heard "live what you write?" I haven't. But it seems to be the way my life has been going in some ways the last few weeks. What do I mean? Well, as I've said before, I have a book releasing in just over a month. For Better or For Granted is set in a high school, with my MCs the principal and the school nurse. The principal, aka Scott, is also the former basketball coach. So, we have some fun school setting/co-worker romance/sports/etc going on. Well, I don't know how much you remember about high school, but I used some of my own memories and then I incorporated some things from school experiences my husband has had over his years of teaching, and then I made some stuff up. But I'm not telling which parts are which. ;) All that to say, as I was doing my final read-through, I noticed some similarities going on in my real life at the same time. Not so much in the relationship aspect of it, but in other ways.
For instance, we attended some basketball games at school a few weeks back because our kids were so close to getting to the play-offs. And as I sat there on those hard bleachers, yelling and cheering and watching all the chaos around me, I could almost believe I was my character Genevieve, seated by her husband, rooting for their own team. Unfortunately, the other way my real life mirrored fiction was through a stomach bug. There's one that goes through the school in my book, and there was one that went through our house hold too. Definitely not the scenes I wanted to recreate. Maybe I don't want my real life to mirror my fiction so much? (By the way, it only knocked us out a couple of days and we're much better now.) Have you ever been reading along and noticed something happening in the book and then noticed it happening in your real life? Or been able to picture a scene from a book you'd read recently that mirrors something you're doing? Do you love when that happens or is it a bit eerie?
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