On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 00:44:58 -0800 Quinn Tyler Jackson 
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?

some do, many don't (hell, Anne Shirley and Sherlock Holmes still get
letters), most don't care so long as you make a good story

> 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.

but a good writerly exercise, none-the-less

-g-

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