Aw, I love reading your book reviews! I haven't done one myself in a while--honestly my Book Review skill set has sort of migrated to the library blog, and I feel a little sorry about that, but it's ultimately a good thing. And GoodReads is great for tracking stuff, but the reviews I very often leave blank, even if I'm planning to review them later. Because it's just so much pressure! Soon as you mark the thing as "read" that little window pops up and says, "WHAT DID YOU THINK!?!?!" And well, I just finished it. I need to think about that for several days, even if I'm up to giving a star rating or something. Then when/if I do have something to say, I don't feel like going back in there--I post it someplace else.
Anyway.
Memoir writing is tricky. I've tried it before, and it's frustrating as hell. So I kinda sympathize with the tendency to either make up stuff or pick and choose pieces from your personal history that you feel like sharing or embellishing--yeah, we call that fiction. There's a whole market for it. There are parts of my own surreal fantasy-horror stories that are autobiographical (not the parts you might expect, but parts nonetheless) but trying to pass the thing off as a "memoir" based on that is FARCICAL. Not to mention intellectually and artistically dishonest.
I share your pain, is what I'm saying.
Still! An amazing story is an amazing story, and sometimes that's all you need.
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Date: 2015-03-19 03:44 am (UTC)Anyway.
Memoir writing is tricky. I've tried it before, and it's frustrating as hell. So I kinda sympathize with the tendency to either make up stuff or pick and choose pieces from your personal history that you feel like sharing or embellishing--yeah, we call that fiction. There's a whole market for it. There are parts of my own surreal fantasy-horror stories that are autobiographical (not the parts you might expect, but parts nonetheless) but trying to pass the thing off as a "memoir" based on that is FARCICAL. Not to mention intellectually and artistically dishonest.
I share your pain, is what I'm saying.
Still! An amazing story is an amazing story, and sometimes that's all you need.