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- From: eoghanni@castle.ed.ac.uk (Eoghann Irving)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Life as Art, vice as versa
- Message-ID: <24382@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 12:02:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.185559.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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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?
-
- VERY dodgy. I don't like using peoples lives in the sense of
- simply copying entire events because they were funny or whatever. I'm
- supposed to be writing fiction. I should be able to make it up.
- On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with using something
- that happens to a friend as the basis for a story, just dont copy
- wholesale.
- I also avoid copying peoples personalities for my characters. I
- use individual character traits, but I try to mix and match to create
- new characters. Apart from anything else, I wouldn't want everybody I
- knew constantly being on guard because they were worried I was going to
- write about them.
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