Sort:  

That's a wonderful feeling, when you seem to be painting something that exists, vs. making up the story in your head.

I recently listened to two people who do improvisation describing this phenomenon. They walk onto a stage in front of an audience with no script, having no idea where their performance will take them. Soon one of them says something, then the other, and a story begins to take shape. Dimensions and characters and sub-plots emerge. They don't really even understand the phenomenon, but the two improvs agree on one thing: they are not making it up. They are simply relaying a story that is real and that exists in some dimension. So bizarre! But it did remind me of that feeling I get sometimes when writing fiction - that I'm recording something that needs to be told, not making it up.