Green Room - Week 8 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite genre to write?

To read?

Are those different, and if so, any insight into why?

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Throwing stuff out here people... hoping someone bites on *something*...

Um...

Trump

Lady Gaga's belly
*looks at trending topics*

Iron Fist trailer

Walking Dead is coming back...

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Comments

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

I write mostly fictionalized nonfiction. I used to write poetry, but I have to be miserable to write the really good stuff. And I'm not miserable now.

I love reading fantasy, historical fiction, and Appalachian literature.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

What is "fictionalized non-fiction"?

What are some of your fave Appalachian literature titles?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I call it "creative nonfiction" :)

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I'm not "getting" this. I iz dum.

Example?

[murielle.livejournal.com]

Remember the guy who wrote about being an addict and Oprah featured his book, then it was revealed much of what he wrote didn't happen, and Oprah felt betrayed? The title was some like...A Thousand Pieces of...something...If he had only called it fictionalized non-fiction he might not have been on Oprah, but he wouldn't have been so horribly, publicly vilified.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I'm not familiar with that particular book but it sounds like it is a novel based on some experiences the writer had in his own life?

[murielle.livejournal.com]

It was years and years ago, back when Oprah had real power, but it was more like an autobiography with things added to make it more dramatic, sensational.

[ryl.livejournal.com]

A Million Little Pieces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Little_Pieces#Controversy), aka "the book with the cover that made me hate sprinkles."

[murielle.livejournal.com]

That's the one! Thank you.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

It's when you write nonfiction but you fictionalize certain events and/or characters in order to make a cohesive story.

As my college advisor once said, "Most people's lives are boring. You have to inject some kind of fiction into it in order to engage the reader." It can be done with editing (Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books are a prime example of this), or by transposing situations in order to make the narrative flow, maybe altering an actual event via place and/or time, things like that. Another big thing are characterizations. Maybe a character is a composite of several people, or s/he could be heavily based on somebody IRL but not exactly that particular person because you fictionalize him/her enough so as not to be recognized. I wrote an entry a topic or two ago which was heavily based on a manager I'd had years ago. That manager and the situation I wrote about actually happened but I fictionalized parts of it to make it a story rather than a straight "Well, this happened, the end".

U iz not dum BTW.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you, m'dear.

I've never heard of this as a genre. I suppose it's akin to "based on a true story"?

[murielle.livejournal.com]

Remember the guy who wrote about being an addict and Oprah featured his book, then it was revealed much of what he wrote didn't happen, and Oprah felt betrayed? The title was some like...A Thousand Pieces of...something...If he had only called it fictionalized non-fiction he might not have been on Oprah, but he wouldn't have been so horribly, publicly vilified.