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Thu 19 May, 2016 10:54 am
http://lithub.com/how-writers-will-steal-your-life-and-use-it-for-fiction/
A very good article, on how nobody's life is out of bounds to the pen of the writer.
It sort of explains why my autobiographical fiction piece never became long enough to fill a whole book. After years of struggling to do it without including offensive elements about my siblings, I deleted most references to any living persons, except myself.
I wish Mickey Spillane had stolen my life, instead of Joe Dull of Poughkeepsie.
@Tes yeux noirs,
Somehow I see those 'dames' as pure fantasy.
@Tes yeux noirs,
Somehow I see those 'dames' as pure fantasy.
I steal from real life all the time. But a lot of it is mixed, so a character is usually going to be a mix of traits from several people I've known. I also people watch, and will write down good dialogue. This is how I got the sentence, "Don't you know they have an agenda?"
I also draw characters from movies and novels. There is a hint of Martha, from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in my latest effort.
@edgarblythe,
The cover pictures fascinated me when I was about 13.
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