Free Experimental Writing Creative Writing Sample

1. I think experimental fiction is very interesting. I find absurdist fiction most compelling because I think it, in a way reflects real life. Life in a sense is absurd. There are things in the world that cannot be explained. There are many religions of people saying this, or saying that. It is hard to know what to believe, whom to believe and what is real. So absurdist fiction, while it reflects reality in absurd ways, in a way is perhaps an accurate way to represent reality—which is often absurd.
2. I also find metafiction quite compelling, since it is aware of itself. Philosophically, this is called a self-reflective loop. Normally there is a curtain between the reader and the writer. This perpetuates the lie that the fiction writer is creating a real world. But really, he is carving a lie from his vocabulary and imagination. So metafiction removes that curtain and says, “Look at me! I am fiction”
For my experiment, I am gong to whip out a few paragraphs of metafiction: Though everything I am writing is fiction, I as your narrator, because I am an honest narrator, must tell you that it is true. The dragons you are about the read about, the volcanoes erupting in people’s bedroom, I would stand before a judge and swear and oath before a jury that this all happened. Moments before your house sprouted wings and flew away, a dragon flew through your bedroom that the volcano erupted from. It is a dangerous house, and we would be best to stay away from it. I am not here to say the dragon is going to come back, but as the saying goes, “Once a dragon flies through your house and sprouts wings, it is best to keep away.”