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Personal experience nonfiction anyone? lol.

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A-RokzStalker:
Aww, I'm sorry. :( Hope you feel better soon, because being sick sucks.

Well, I figured I'd want something to be able to look back on to remember this trip with my youth group, so I thought a story would be a good way to do it. :)

nicksgal:
Aw, I feel mostly fine.... I just can't talk. lol Which is unfortunate as heck, but you know... lol

Yeah, a story is a good way to remember. :) I have a journal for that. lol

MonkeyAbu:
I've never actually written a story based on any of my real life experiences as a whole, but like others on here have said, I've used bits and pieces of real experiences and incorporated them into stories, more specifically in "If Tomorrow Never Comes" and more specifically then that, the feelings that Brian is experiencing. I've channeled alot of his emotions from the emotions I experienced over the two years I watched my grandma die from cancer. I think it kinda acts as a coping tool, if that makes any sense. For me personally, I have a really hard time opening up about what I am feeling inside. My favorite thing to say when someone asks me what is wrong is, "Nothing." Yeah, I know, that's a common thing to say when asked that, but I say it even when I'm completely desperate to really express what's going on inside my mind. And still, I hate change and I've yet to fully accept the fact of what happened with my grandma and it's been almost two years. Guess I have acceptance issues :-\? So incorporating a crap load of my own emotions into ITNC has worked as a bit of a coping tool for me. Sometimes it can be easy to write all of that out, especially when you are writing your own real life experiences, yet at the same time it can be extremely difficult. Overall, it can be both a positive and a negative.

MellzBellz:

--- Quote from: A-RokzStalker on March 01, 2008, 05:54:48 PM ---Ah, so you're writing fiction based on reality, am I correct? In some ways, I almost think it would be more difficult to do that than it is to actually write nonfiction experiences... That's just me though. Sounds like it works out really well for you. :)

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Ehh I really don't find it too hard because I like writing a lot of angsty dramas with a lil dash of romance in there and quite frankly I live a pretty boring life, so if I were to write a story strictly based on experience it would bore you to tears. I like incoporating some of my personal experiences with fictional situations to spice them up a little bit. It's definitely not AS hard as you think. Just requires a good imagination I guess.

honey:
^  I guess that's how I do it too.

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