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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!elf
- From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
- Subject: Life as Art, vice as versa
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.224026.22911@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Originator: elf@halcyon.com
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Reply-To: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
- Organization: Pendor, UnLtd.
- References: <1992Jul27.185559.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:40:26 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Jul27.185559.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
-
- >That is, what do you think about churning your friends' lives into
- >fiction?
-
- Everything, they say, is grist for the mill. We've got precious
- little to base characters on except for personal experience.
- "Remember," I used to tell my friends, "Anything you say can and
- probably will show up in one of my stories." I actually had a friend
- _order_ me not to use his cat in one of my stories, because he wanted
- to use it in one of his! (A year later he STILL hasn't written the
- damn thing... I tell ya, Peter, write it soon or Da Loaf is gonna show
- up in a Journal Entry any day now!)
-
- Basically, you have three resources for information: Non-fiction
- (the newspaper and such), Fiction (other people's writings), and your
- life. The last is, of course, usually the best and most honest, the
- only place where you really have any human emotions to write fiction
- with.
-
- Elf !!!
- --
- Elf Sternberg __ | I have looked into the abyss, and the abyss
- elf@halcyon.com \/ | has looked into me. Neither liked what we saw.
- elf@polari.online.com | - Brother Theodore
-