On 3/25/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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.
Thats how i write the articles for the newsletter at work, Start with the first thoughts, read, then cut paste, rewrite, etc. I hear ya Bob.:-) Dave > > -- > Bob > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
