ha. true. our writing can veil or reveal us to readers and they will never know the difference if they dont know us...funny how that contrasts with actually connecting with others.
A connection is made regardless of whether the content is autobiographical, biographical or just sheer fantasy.The reader interprets according to his or her own perceptions. This is a post modernist approach to literature.
Oh yes, the writers privilege.. and only the reader know if it's real to him (which has happened a few times, that my fiction is another's reality) :-)
Of course only the writer knows which is his/her reality and which is pure fiction. But, as Bjorn has pointed out, our fiction can all too easily be someone else's reality.
I used to think that writers wrote all the time - or at least every day - which meant that I am not a writer. However, I find that when I'm not writing, I worry about having nothing to write, so perhaps I'm a writer after all!
Writing is an addiction, that is all I know.The 2 writers that I know both write every day. I also know that I will never ever suffer from writer's block because I see poetry in absolutely everything.Some writers never use fiction, some use a little and some use a lot.I think even if you knew a poet on a personal level it would still be difficult to determine his or her reality unless they gave an explanation. I must confess that I do not understand a lot of poetry. I just give it my own meaning and understand what it is supposed to mean from the comments:) That is why very occasionally I give the reader some background to the work particularly if it is based on history or politics or something I have seen on tv etc.
ha. true. our writing can veil or reveal us to readers and they will never know the difference if they dont know us...funny how that contrasts with actually connecting with others.
ReplyDeleteA connection is made regardless of whether the content is autobiographical, biographical or just sheer fantasy.The reader interprets according to his or her own perceptions. This is a post modernist approach to literature.
DeleteWhich is exactly as it should be.
ReplyDeleteGlad you agree Dave.
DeleteOh yes, the writers privilege.. and only the reader know if it's real to him (which has happened a few times, that my fiction is another's reality) :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd vice versa I'm sure:)
ReplyDeleteOf course only the writer knows which is his/her reality and which is pure fiction. But, as Bjorn has pointed out, our fiction can all too easily be someone else's reality.
ReplyDeleteI used to think that writers wrote all the time - or at least every day - which meant that I am not a writer. However, I find that when I'm not writing, I worry about having nothing to write, so perhaps I'm a writer after all!
Writing is an addiction, that is all I know.The 2 writers that I know both write every day. I also know that I will never ever suffer from writer's block because I see poetry in absolutely everything.Some writers never use fiction, some use a little and some use a lot.I think even if you knew a poet on a personal level it would still be difficult to determine his or her
ReplyDeletereality unless they gave an explanation. I must confess that I do not understand a lot of poetry. I just give it my own meaning and understand what it is supposed to mean from the comments:) That is why very occasionally I give the reader some background to the work particularly if it is based on history or politics or something I have seen on tv etc.