In a message dated 4/4/03 1:46:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, qjackson{at}shaw.ca 
writes:

<< Do non-writers realize that 50% of something can be based on truth,
 whereas the other 50% can be pure fabrication for dramatic effect?
 
 The only way any of it makes any sense is if "I own what I live." This
 means, of course, that those writers who know me have every right to
 write their own versions of the events, even if I come out stinking,
 right? If I own what I live, then others own those parts of the living
 that crossed their paths. How would the shoe feel on the other foot?
 
 Eek.
 
 --
 Quinn Tyler Jackson
  >>

Sadly, Quinn, I can answer this succiinctly: Write what you know.

For this reason, one of my friends thinks I need to live more to be a good 
writer.   I have the philosopher complex however: I feel younger with each 
year lived.  Merlin, anybody?

Mike S.

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