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hippocampus - Mar 04, 2008 9:03:15 am PST #2863 of 10001

not your mom's socks.

makes me want to punch her in the face all the more. You exploited people, asshole.

I am with you. I've been raging this all day. A new definition of identity theft. And it makes all writers cringe.

Memoir = Things that Happened To You (the real you, not your idealized, stolen identity)

Nonfiction = careful study of things that happened to a real person (not you), with factual backup (that you didn't make up)

Fiction = Things that did not happen

easy enough, right?

Dana - Mar 04, 2008 9:05:41 am PST #2864 of 10001

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

What do you want? Human torch? Invisibility? Smashing really big things?

All of the above!

Edit: Does that make me The Invisible Human Torch Thing?

Ginger - Mar 04, 2008 9:06:20 am PST #2865 of 10001

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The editor, though. THREE FUCKING YEARS and you never verified any piece of this woman's story? THREE YEARS?

Particularly since authors lying about their horrific pasts have even made L&O storylines. If you can't be arsed to read the news, editor, can't you at least keep up with pop culture and learn to be suspicious?

Allyson - Mar 04, 2008 9:12:15 am PST #2866 of 10001

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Thinking about it, I sent a detailed contact list, one of my blurbs was written by one of my subjects, and I supplied links to actual conversations that took place along with a list of permissions granted by people I wrote about.

I wonder what sort of documentation Asshole provided.

Allyson - Mar 04, 2008 9:13:13 am PST #2867 of 10001

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I realize I am being all me me me.

How annoying.

Ginger - Mar 04, 2008 9:15:17 am PST #2868 of 10001

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.

msbelle - Mar 04, 2008 9:15:22 am PST #2869 of 10001

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

it probably did not hurt that your agent knew some of us, right?

§ ita § - Mar 04, 2008 9:16:07 am PST #2870 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I gave my editor your number, did he call?

Nope. I could be a figment.

Dana - Mar 04, 2008 9:17:37 am PST #2871 of 10001

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.

You were a book editor, Ginger. In STALINIST RUSSIA. And you published this book that was supposed to be a memoir, but it turned out to be total fiction. And you are the Princess Anistasia.

Susan W. - Mar 04, 2008 9:22:17 am PST #2872 of 10001

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.

Well, when the James Frey thing broke, I was all grumbly because as a writer of historical fiction, I can't really fake a memoir. I mean, even the most credulous idiot won't believe I was alive in 1811...unless I'm the reincarnation of a Peninsular War camp follower writing a past life memoir.

Except now I'm writing an alternate history, so, uh...I'm channeling my past life spirits from an alternate universe? Think anyone will buy that?

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