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Stephen Lodge
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Post Number:
588
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 06:42 am: |   |
How far should narrative license go when relating a true story that took place many years earlier? Based on the writer's personal experience; not a news story.
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Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
"Shadows of Eagles"
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Pacwriter
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3029
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 07:22 am: | |
There was a guy who sold a million seller based on some stuff in his life - the problem was that he told the embellishments as fact. The book deal went south and his writing career went to the outhouse. Moral of the story is, if it's true keep it true, if it ain't all true say, "Based on author's experiences and poor memory" in a foreword.
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Joyce Scarbrough
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1126
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 07:57 am: | |
Steve, I'd do as Perry suggested and preface the book with a note that makes it clear that while the story is based on real events, some of the book is fiction.
For an excellent example of this kind of author statement, see the one in Tom's wonderful book, NORTH OF TEXAS, although Tom's is at the end of the book instead of the beginning.
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
849
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 08:22 am: | |
Yeah, Joyce. It belongs at the beginnning, and if it's ever published again it will be there. Called Author's Notes because.....well, because that's what they are.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Kevin R. Paglia
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Post Number:
319
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2007 - 09:11 am: | |
I've been thinking about writing a story based on my experiences in supernatural things. I plan on prefacing the book with:
"We'll call this fiction for everyone who doesn't want to believe"
Kevin |
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