Old memories are a gold mine for our writing

Admin Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK

What was the question?

Dear Shelagh,
Are you sure?????????????

I have so many comma's but's and and's. I would be so proud for you to fix all of that and any thing else you consider needs done to it.

You can change your mind. I know how much you already do.

Love,
Betty

Admin Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK

Send it Betty. I'm free until the end of September, so now would be a good time.

Malcolm, I'm a little late, but your post was awesome. I read every word. Memories of those long ago moments come to mind at the most opportune times. As writers we all put pieces of ourselves in what we write.

You really did a nice job of expressing this.

Vickie

When someone asks me if my writing is autobiographical, I say, "the emotion is real, the characters are composites from those I've met and those I'd like to know and some I would choose to avoid, the places are real, and the story is the glue that puts them all together with a beginning and an ending. Real life is not so well organized, and the events are not in my control.

DK, that is a really good quote.

Vickie

Thanks, Vickie. That's a good answer, DK. I think I'll steal it and have it read if anyone asks.

Malcolm

Dk,
what you said came through clear in your book. If you recall, I commented that I thought it was a true story.

DK wrote

Quote :: Real life is not so well organized, and the events are not in my contro

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Ain't it so!!

Ann

I realized that with my book was based on family, and I went with the happenings as they occurred, which was willy nilly and haphazard.

Carol

Carol,

That's the way life is, willy-nilly and haphazard. So, what do we do when we're writing historical fiction and want to keep to the facts?

One of my favorite writers of historical fiction is Sharon Kay Penman. She manages to stay factual and make a fascinating story out of the history.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Ann

dkchristi wrote:: When someone asks me if my writing is autobiographical, I say, "the emotion is real, the characters are composites from those I've met and those I'd like to know and some I would choose to avoid, the places are real, and the story is the glue that puts them all together with a beginning and an ending. Real life is not so well organized, and the events are not in my control.

A wonderful way of putting it, DK.

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