tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post1037955367819927450..comments2023-08-29T03:49:51.567-04:00Comments on B. Miller Fiction: Using Real LifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-22679067699646822652010-03-11T23:30:45.554-05:002010-03-11T23:30:45.554-05:00How our brains work, create, connect, assimilate a...How our brains work, create, connect, assimilate and then transfer to what and how we write is fascinating...and fun! I'm so happy you are having fun with it. <br /><br />I enjoyed this post... and now I'm craving a peach.<br /><br />(I lived most of my adult life in the Charleston area--and we go down a few weeks every summer. The Low Country is home to me, and I miss those peaches)Lola Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394765053485642935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-54245986565894079952010-03-11T20:56:46.866-05:002010-03-11T20:56:46.866-05:00I think this is what is meant about writing what y...I think this is what is meant about writing what you know. You can relate the most far-fetched thing in the universe but it has to be tangible to the reader's experience and that is rooted to a great extent in the writer's experience. The things like you described can be mixed up and redesigned to fit any story. It's like writing music-- you've got your notes and scales and you keep using the same ones, but you change them around to convey what you want the listener to hear.<br />I like the way you presented to us what you are doing in your writing process.<br />LeeArlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-34396924986850417952010-03-11T18:02:14.000-05:002010-03-11T18:02:14.000-05:00I sometimes use real places, but almost never real...I sometimes use real places, but almost never real events in my life. I think I've used only one!L. Diane Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06425864276166334896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-7224813770632615982010-03-11T16:55:15.835-05:002010-03-11T16:55:15.835-05:00The flurry of leaves on a breezy March day. Check....The flurry of leaves on a breezy March day. Check.<br /><br />Love it! It all makes its way in our writing. <br /><br />One of my favorite quotes from Henry Thoreau:<br />"How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood to live."Tamika:https://www.blogger.com/profile/04874834971492028558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-28651903333709896052010-03-11T16:17:32.432-05:002010-03-11T16:17:32.432-05:00I use real settings in my books. I have one in th...I use real settings in my books. I have one in the pipeline, a Stephen King thriller type, that takes place in rural Michigan. Although I grew up in Lansing (capital city), my parents grew up in the country side and I'm using this setting as the backdrop.<br /><br />Stephen TrempAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-59696324696986593282010-03-11T16:12:49.037-05:002010-03-11T16:12:49.037-05:00I sort of first realised writers do this when I st...I sort of first realised writers do this when I started reading the collected journalism by one of my favourite fiction writers, Arturo Pérez-Reverte - I knew most of his thrillers back to front at that point so I was practically going through the journalism pieces and going 'All right *that's* why that café is there...'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333789853886557070.post-9651308998766713152010-03-11T16:04:30.198-05:002010-03-11T16:04:30.198-05:00That's a good idea to write that stuff down.That's a good idea to write that stuff down.Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.com