> > I may have to write it as fiction. No body would think the stories > would be true. > > LOL > > Most would think i should be dead after some of the early > adventures.:-) >
even non-fiction goes through a 'fictionalising process' - that's a phrase that Bruce Chatwin coined when talking about how he wrote. Just like anything else, writing is a matter of selectively down-playing and emphasising different things depending on the effect you want to produce. Typically you make the hero more heroic, and the bad guys more evil, than they were in real life. You make the events bigger and bolder. Have you tried writing any of your stories down yet? Or speaking them into a dictaphone is if you were telling them to someone? Another truism is that writing is rewriting. First you have to write something down, however rough and ready it is, then rewrite it. The rewrite it again. Then leave it to lager for a while. Then read it and rewrite it again. Eventually you'll miss a deadline, and that's when it's ready. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
