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Personal experience nonfiction anyone? lol.

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mare:
I think it's easier to write what you know and have expericenced personally. Many of my non fanfic and even fanficy stuff has a lot of real life stuff in them. I also think the more personal the story, the harder it is to put it out there for people to review lol

honey:
lol the writing quality is what makes me cringe with that one. We could play a game with that story and try to count how many of the pet peeves from the pet peeve thread are in it. (probably more than I put in the pet peeve challenge. Maybe even all of them. haha.)


I did have fun writing about my crazy issues though, and it's often made me think I should write a story about some of my other experiences. I've always kind of wanted to write a story about how my husband and I met cause it's really cute and sort of "fairy-tale-ish" (we were engaged two weeks after we met without ever having even gone on a date, and got married two months later. We're crazy, ha ha, but it was very fluffy. Right up my alley as far as writing goes, but I wouldn't want to just write non fiction, I would spruce it up in a fictional way.

And I've also kind of wanted to write a serious story about some of my darker experiences, but I'm not very good at writing drama/angst. I wonder if writing my own story might actually help me do that. I should try it, but it's kind of a depressing story, I don't know how many people would ever want to read it. (though I suppose since I "beat" it, it's a happy ending.)


How has your story been going? Do you ever feel strange writing it knowing that it's all real? Do you find it hard to remember things? Would you ever consider sharing something like that with people?  I think I might have a hard time showing people something that they knew was real.

A-RokzStalker:

--- Quote from: mare on March 01, 2008, 12:59:24 PM ---I think it's easier to write what you know and have expericenced personally. Many of my non fanfic and even fanficy stuff has a lot of real life stuff in them. I also think the more personal the story, the harder it is to put it out there for people to review lol

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hehe, that's when you change your name and move to another state if you still know the people that are in it! That or reveal everything personal ahead of time, lol.

A-RokzStalker:

--- Quote from: honey on March 01, 2008, 01:02:37 PM ---lol the writing quality is what makes me cringe with that one. We could play a game with that story and try to count how many of the pet peeves from the pet peeve thread are in it. (probably more than I put in the pet peeve challenge. Maybe even all of them. haha.)


I did have fun writing about my crazy issues though, and it's often made me think I should write a story about some of my other experiences. I've always kind of wanted to write a story about how my husband and I met cause it's really cute and sort of "fairy-tale-ish" (we were engaged two weeks after we met without ever having even gone on a date, and got married two months later. We're crazy, ha ha, but it was very fluffy. Right up my alley as far as writing goes, but I wouldn't want to just write non fiction, I would spruce it up in a fictional way.

And I've also kind of wanted to write a serious story about some of my darker experiences, but I'm not very good at writing drama/angst. I wonder if writing my own story might actually help me do that. I should try it, but it's kind of a depressing story, I don't know how many people would ever want to read it. (though I suppose since I "beat" it, it's a happy ending.)


How has your story been going? Do you ever feel strange writing it knowing that it's all real? Do you find it hard to remember things? Would you ever consider sharing something like that with people?  I think I might have a hard time showing people something that they knew was real.

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:D Who cares if some pet peeves are in it? It's not like the whole story is one big pet peeve! It's a good story, lol.

I think that writing personal experience really helps a person to be able to write what they normally couldn't with something that never actually happened, in my opinion. You should try it. :)

My story's been great! It's about a beach trip that my church youth group went on. I've written 9 pages so far (which is more than I can say about any other story I've written) and we're still on the ride down there! :D I love it.

I'm only having trouble with the little "filler" type things that happen in between the major parts, because I can't remember what stores we went to and what everyone said and did in them (it was quite amusing though...), I think that once I get passed this one part, everything will go smoothly again. :)

No, I don't feel strange writing it knowing that it's all real. Partially because over on Julie's forum, there's a whole entire two threads about this, because I use Julie's forum as my journal, lol. So, I've basically already written the story, I'm just putting it into story form now!

I don't think I'd mind showing anybody on the internet. It'd be an entirely different thing if I were to show people that are actually in it. *hides* lol.

honey:
oh man... Church youth group trips... I have some crazy stories about church youth group trips.. ha ha good times.

filler parts are always the hardest thing about writing, I think, anyway. But good for you on writing! getting past the first scene is always tough, so nine pages is awesome.

And yeah that makes sense about sharing the story with internet people. I could probably do that easy enough. That's different than writing a story about everything I went through and then showing it to the people I have to face everyday. Even the people that experienced it with me. It would be so nerve-wracking letting everyone know what I was thinking and feeling through all of that.

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