Giovanni's Room

[intrepidlepton]

it's amazing how reading #1# paragraph can bring back a hundred memories all at once. we were reading Giovanni's Room in Lit Class and at one point the main character's father was saying to him, "Your Aunt Ellen says it's my fault...She says's I never raised you right. You got nothing against me have you? Tell me if you have?" And he answered

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[brighty18]

That is the beauty of fiction, is it not? Writing fiction gives us the chance to explore our own feelings and even expand on them within the safe confines of so-called "untruth." But there is truth in anything, is there not

[intrepidlepton]

I find slash fic easier too, not so much to write but to read. When it's just one guy and one girl (triads are different for me for some reason) it's harder for me to get into it, I guess since I wouldn't really want to be the girl. I can see how in your NOTcrappy *delightful* fanfics there could be pieces of you in there.
Oh and, yeah, my mom said those things and much more. Thanks for the sympathy, but things aren't so bad as they used to be. Now when she says my nose is too big I leave the room and I get over it by the next day. But don't be surprised if you find a bunch of parental characters in my fiction that act like that...I've practically written my whole life into this stuff in one way or another. (By the way, nothing is TMI to me! :)

[a_shadow_there]

It's definitely not just you, AJ - I think that, like Brighty says, that is the beauty of fiction. Using fictional events to get at some kind of truth - isn't that what writing is all about? (Damn - if only I were able to do that one day *gazes longingly out the window*...)

And I have so had some of those moments while reading - the first time I read 'The Bell Jar', is one example (Good god, I am such a cliche sometimes, lol).