W00t!!! I wrote a short (500-word-ish, pared down from 800) piece on How I Came to Fencing, and a local publication (of the free and newsprint variety) is going to run it sometime in the fall!
D00d!!1!
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
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Steph L. - Mar 25, 2004 12:11:04 pm PST #3730 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Kessie - Mar 25, 2004 12:13:29 pm PST #3731 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
Nilly: You are excused. Hope you ´ll have a great time in the US btw! Do you know your date when you are flying yet?
Erika: Fine- toothed is fine with me ! Hope it`ll get the knots out of my unkempt writing ;)
deborah grabien - Mar 25, 2004 12:14:34 pm PST #3732 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
TEPPY!
I know we can't read it here (pre-pub internet pub not acceptable), but I do want to see it, damnit.
YOWSA!
Susan W. - Mar 25, 2004 12:16:00 pm PST #3733 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Go Teppy!
erikaj - Mar 25, 2004 12:17:04 pm PST #3734 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yay, Tep.
Nilly - Mar 25, 2004 12:18:32 pm PST #3735 of 10001
Swouncing
Thanks, Kessie - it'll probably be in the late summer, but I don't know anything specific yet.
Congrats, Teppy!
Kessie - Mar 25, 2004 12:19:34 pm PST #3736 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
Steph L. .. Congrats!!
Susan , Hope you´ll feel better soon! The writing will come soon, I´m sure, it always does *good vibes*
Steph L. - Mar 25, 2004 12:20:00 pm PST #3737 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There might be a way around it -- I could maybe post it and delete it after, say 30 minutes. Like I said, this publication is one of the newsprint monthly free publications that one finds in supermarkets. I fully expect to line many birdcages.
t edit Having said that, I gotta run out the door to my writing class, so if I do post-and-delete, it won't be until later or tomorrow.
Lyra Jane - Mar 25, 2004 12:21:30 pm PST #3738 of 10001
Up with the sun
HOORAY TEP!!!!
Beverly - Mar 25, 2004 1:06:57 pm PST #3739 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Teppy, that's marvelous! Go you! I'd love to read it, too.
Writers group had a wangle yesterday over "creative nonfiction." Member brought a piece which was lovely. Based on a factual relationship and a true event, but she'd changed the setting, imagined a house that wasn't, decorated in a way that never existed.
I think it's fine to base a fictional story on a real event, an actual relationship, etc. And it's also fine to look at facts in a refocused way in a nonfiction piece. For example, a story about a family funeral when the writer was a child: rather than describing a house and yard that never existed, the "creative" part could have been her describing the house that did exist in a hyper aware and detailed way. The winter sunlight shining through burlap curtains that her aunt had carefully raveled to make fringed edges, the worn boards of the floor, the scarred black varnish of the front door, etc.
Was I right? Or have I misunderstood the creative part of creative nonfiction?