Real versus fictitious

[BlackSnake]

Yes there was a very good thread on here a while back, in which I had a very good discussion with one fellow Lit-er in particular who helped me changed my views on a number of situations.

Now, I try to balance things between detail, realism and description, keeping the measurements for the most part out of things, though a couple of my earlier works do have them...

Capt

We evolve as writers by learning the complexities of writing. I have seen some good stories cheapened by adding numbers. Even though you are the storyteller, you should leave room for the reader's imagination.

 

[emap]

Black I like your picture, to bad I've found my man already, otherwise I'd be all over you. I do miss that old one you had of I assume your third leg.

 

[snooper]

... I just harbour the opinion that fiction can, for the most part, be better than real stories, ...

I didn't say "better", I said "stranger". Coincidences (for example) can and do happen in real life that no fiction author would get away with.

 

[snooper]

... I hate getting number measurements in my stories ...

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. When I look at a woman I don’t think in terms of how many inches her bust is. I don’t believe that a woman looks at a man’s penis and thinks, “How many inches is that?”

Compare: “The door opened to reveal Mrs. Fezziwig. She was 5’ 11”, 280lbs, 48DD-44-48. She smiled at me.” with Charles Dickens’ original: “In came Mrs.Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.” I don’t expect everyone on Lit to write like Dickens, but I do wish they would stop writing like a forensic pathologist.

 

[TheCaptain]

I didn't say "better", I said "stranger". Coincidences (for example) can and do happen in real life that no fiction author would get away with.

So noted...

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. When I look at a woman I don’t think in terms of how many inches her bust is. I don’t believe that a woman looks at a man’s penis and thinks, “How many inches is that?”

Compare: “The door opened to reveal Mrs. Fezziwig. She was 5’ 11”, 280lbs, 48DD-44-48. She smiled at me.” with Charles Dickens’ original: “In came Mrs.Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.” I don’t expect everyone on Lit to write like Dickens, but I do wish they would stop writing like a forensic pathologist.

Yes, I think thats where a lot of Lit-authors go wrong, but then again I believe a little experience helps with some of the better writers.

God knows, I've sure as heck grown as an author in the two years I've been posting on Lit... hopefully for the better! . I listen to what readers want, how fellow writers operate and what they respect in other authors, and changed the way that I think and work accordingly. If you can't bend to the will of others, without compromising your own inner-ethos, then I don't believe you have much of a buckley's chance in becoming a good, long-lasting writer...

Capt

 

[silverwhisper]

how scary is it when somebody holds up dickens, a man who was paid by the word, as a model of textual economy? :>

ed

 

[TheCaptain]

how scary is it when somebody holds up dickens, a man who was paid by the word, as a model of textual economy? :>

ed

how scary is it that I have no fricken idea who the dickens Dickens is?

Capt

 

[silverwhisper]

[smacks the captain w/ a trout]



ed

 

[bisexplicit]

*pokes silver and runs away giggling*

 

[TheCaptain]

[smacks the captain w/ a trout]



ed

*pokes silver and runs away giggling*

U guyz crack me up

Capt

 

[bisexplicit]

U guyz crack me up

CCapt

You're pretty amusing yourself.

 

[silverwhisper]

woo-hoo!

hey, it's all part of the service, cap... :>

ed

 

[TheCaptain]

You're pretty amusing yourself.

Ah shucks! Why thankyou Miss Bi

Smacks Capt with trout.... rofl that was classic

 

[bisexplicit]

Ah shucks! Why thankyou Miss Bi

Smacks Capt with trout.... rofl that was classic

*giggles* Yeah, I thought that one was pretty amusing too.

 

[silverwhisper]

another forum i frequent actually has a smiley for that, frighteningly enough: it's in my sig over there.

ed

 

[bisexplicit]

another forum i frequent actually has a smiley for that, frighteningly enough: it's in my sig over there.

ed

A smilie that is being smacked with a trout?

 

[silverwhisper]

actually, one smiley smacking another smiley w/ a trout. :>

ed

 

[TheCaptain]

another forum i frequent actually has a smiley for that, frighteningly enough: it's in my sig over there.

ed

yes I dont find that surprising in the least, hard light productions, a scifi-generalstuff-computa games forum, has some really champion emoticons I would luv to import to some of my other haunts!

Capt

 

[bisexplicit]

*laughs* Thats even better!

 

[silverwhisper]

cap: you and me both, man. you and me both. :>

ed

 

[TheCaptain]

cap: you and me both, man. you and me both. :>

ed

ah well, such is life hey?

 

[SpacegirlLynn]

I am kind of new to this but the few stories I've finished end up being a mixture of Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy.

Something's may have happened but I'll embellish a bit to try and make it more interesting.

Sure I could say it's all true but then who really cares. If you have the same story and you like it would it really change that if it was preceded by a disclaimer claiming it to be true?

Not for me.