Comments on: I’m spinning right ’round …

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:26:22 +0000

Thanks for visiting, Dory. I’m just back from visiting yours and will return. And thank you for the compliment on my “gorgeous” sentence. I just had to quote that, because it’s not something I hear every day.

I think we write fiction, consciously or subconsciously, to discover our truths. By giving ourselves that distance, we can be more honest in our thoughts and emotions.

By: Dory Adams

Dory Adams — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:11:28 +0000

“I thought about our memories, which are only our perceptions of things that once happened, once existed, and how we are forming a memory right this instant as time passes through us like a ghost.”

That’s one gorgeous sentence. The reminiscent narrator is one of my favorites for fiction and it’s the foundation for creative nonfiction. Memory is such a fascinating thing, and in writing fiction we sometimes come very close to the truth (such as when Amy Tan discovered she had written something about a character in one of her novels that had actually happened to her grandmother — a family secret that she’d not known).

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:56:55 +0000

Thank you. I added it. I’m sooooo behind schedule today and I haven’t written a word in my novel.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:53:31 +0000

You know, I’m convinced that the people, houses, and restaurants in this novel really do exist somewhere. It just seems right to me.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:40:15 +0000

How about an award instead? You know which one. The one you had to show me yesterday how to cut and paste onto my blog. Well now you get to do it to yours. You deserve it in all your lovelyness.

By: karen from mentor

karen from mentor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:41:25 +0000

Linda,
I was recently driving and looked out my window to look at Jerry’s house.

a) Jerry’s house exists only in An Organized Life
b) so does Jerry

I did the wadawadawada with my head and regrouped.
Sometimes the things we write are just as real as the things we live. Sometimes they are the same thing, thinly disguised.
hugs!
Karen :0)

p.s. An Organized Life is the title of my novel…just in case that wasn’t painfully obvious in context.

By: calliopespen

calliopespen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:16 +0000

Linda, see what I mean? It is contagious….

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:13:58 +0000

We’re getting quite philosophical here, aren’t we?

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:54:22 +0000

But separately we’ll look pretty strange.

By: jenniferneri

jenniferneri — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:38:44 +0000

okay Linda, this is freaky. We must be on the same wave length…two days in row…very similar posts…

And no, I don`t believe that what we create with words is any less real. Perception is all about experience.