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- From: miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
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- Subject: Re: Life as Art
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.131621.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:16:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.185559.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.185559.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
- > Idle curiosity here...
- > How do you respond when your date admits that he/she is a novelist
- > (unpublished) and offers to loan you her/his last manuscript
- > about the previous significant other... or the novel before that,
- > about the person before that...?
- > That is, what do you think about churning your friends' lives into
- > fiction?
- > Is the appropriate etiquette to reply in kind and let him/her find
- > a notebook/recorder/Powerbook under your pillow?
- > Would Miss Manners approve of saying, "Sorry, I'm saving MY life
- > for MY novel, please don't write about me when I'm gone," or ?
- > Bob
-
- IMHO I don't think that you *should* be basing your characters purely on
- the people in your life (ie date, spouse, family, friends...) That's
- one sure fire way to (a) alienate them; (b)lose control over that
- particular character (ie no way would I have done that!); and (c) people
- remember things differently - even if you were both there at the time,
- your friend will remember it differently.
-
- Sure you might really admire a certain quality; but does that mean that
- you have to base the entire character on a person with that quality?
-
- Excuse the soapbox, but this is a subject that I feel strongly about.
- By all means soak up all that life offers (good and bad). Just be a
- little more selective in what you give back.
-
- Thus endth my humble opinion.
-
- Morgana
-