Hope this goes well for you, Andrew!
It is something I want to do some day.
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Mon, 11/9/09, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: blog
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Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 3:12 PM
2009/11/10 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Interesting, Andrew. Taking on more photos might prove one way into the
> memory-snaps that seem to be accumulating here.
>
> I've read some of your other prose, supposedly 'fictional' but also perhaps
> based on personal experience. How much of those works will you go back &
> utilize in this, perhaps rethought, re-remembered, & rewritten?
>
Now, that's a problem area. You know a lot of autobiography is biography,
so I must take care in not exposing or trampling on other people. & once I
start thinking "I must take care" the writing becomes dull. That's my worry
there. (Doug is referring to a novel I wrote about a runaway girl who ends
up addicted to heroin, in a bikie gang, a detox centre, etc.)
>
> I've thought about such a thing too, & decided that the most honest would
> be short 'takes' where memory 'serves', so to speak. I know I cant remember
> a lot, or else misremember. Do you have that feeling too?
>
Yes, I'm remembering events with holes in their story! & dates - I'm
hopeless. But that kind of factual auto would be dull with my life: I think
if this is going to succeed at all, it will be in the style, and the
structure, the shuffling between ages, hopefully showing the effect of
events on the subject.
>
> Did you ever read Stop-Time by Frank Conroy?
>
No. I'll look him up. All tips welcome!
Thanks, Doug.
> Andrew
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