As I Was Saying
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:17PM | | | | Me, Myself and I | Posted By: Margaret Diehl
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| Tags: blogging, writing, memoir, Internet candor | | | | Recent articles and discussions about the dangers of Internet candor are making me feel a little anxious, defensive, though as a writer I’m always revealing myself, and even when I wrote only fiction, half my readers assumed it was autobiography. They responded to my modest denials with a wink. Don’t people know one writes fiction for the same reason one reads it—to escape what really happened? Certainly, you put in bits of real stuff, like a bird making a nest, some tinfoil from the pill bottle, the razored-out spot on the blue dress, the love note your sister’s boyfriend wrote which you stole from her bedside table (an example I just invented, sis); but the nest becomes a nest, a small nest, a bird’s nest;... | | | | | | | |
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This blog will contain duplicated posts from my mkdiehl.wordpress.com blog and maybe original posts, maybe poems, maybe nothing...
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