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More off topic. Will Self can't be his real name, in the same way Ruby Wax bolderises her name perhaps. Anyone any inside info on Will Self's real name?
Ian
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Might be "William" Self, the sneaky devil.
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Yes, very good, Willy Self just isn't right.
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I would agree alienation does drive my writing. When I feel less alienated I don't write. This kind of links to a thread I started a while back about how solitary a writer's life has to be.
I'd like to see Chuck Palahniuk let loose on Harry Potter.
Cath
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Really? That would be cool. I'd quite like to see Freddy Krueger or Jason Vorhees have a go...
JB
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A lot of writers alianate themselves from the outside word when writing. It isn't a matter of alienation more a matter of turning recluse. We block ourselves off from the outside world, rather than the outside world blocking us out.
I did this to some extent while writing my autobiography, all the emotions we hold inside come out when doing an autobiography, it is much harder to write than anything else for this reason. You can read the prieview at http://www.lulu.com/lindacorby So if you are feeling depressed it might help you feel better to read this. There are always people out there that have had a worse time than we have in life. I am helping a young man put his autobiography together right now, and he has had a really dreadful time. It is strange but it does help to know you are not alone, because horrible and good things happen to us all, we are all different, yet all the same, odd but true. One just has to keep our chins up, keep going and never give up on life. Good luck, Linda
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I'm curious as to how someone can struggle to write an autobiography. Surely you only start writing one in the first place because you feel you have something to say about yourself?
I'll robably never write one myself (nobody wants to read 100,000 words of bitter, vitriolic ranting), so I'm probably missing something.
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I think it's a brave and courageous thing to write an autobiography when it involves dragging up a lot of painful memories and difficult experiences, as opposed to the pat-yourself-on-the-back crap that many celebrities knock out.
Colin M
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I'm curious as to how someone can struggle to write an autobiography.
Anyone wanting to write any story has to decide which story to tell. If it's about yourself, it's harder, because we all have so many versions of ourselves. And that's before you start trying to decide which friends and families you don't mind offending, and which of your own personal follies, disasters and medical history you don't mind displaying.
Emma
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I do find the idea of selectively 'baring all' mildly amusing, but given the personal nature of this discussion, I won't push it too much.
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My autobiography was written at the request of my 12 year old daughter before she died from cancer. It was hard to write because of the emotional content, and it is up front and straight. Believe me writing fiction or about other people for them is eaisier, and I know this for a fact because I have done both. Most celeb autobiographies are ghost written, so they don't have to disect anything themselves, just tell the ghost writer once, and the ghost writers are not emotionally involved in whatever happened to the celebs in their life, so it is just a story to them. Of course it depends on what has happened in ones life, some people have more luck in life than others, others just have kiss and tell stories, which I don't find interesting. I would rather read a real life story, about someone who has really lived, and not just made it big time. Have fun, Linda
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Thank you Colin, you hit the nail on the head. Obviously you understand what I meant. Linda
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Your right! Personally I have just blown caution to the wind and not worried who I upset, it is the only truthful way to write your autobiography in my opinion. Having said that I have not gone out to diliberatly hurt anyone else, and there is a lot of stuff I could have put in that I didn't,( I had to edit out about 400 pages because it was just tooo big!) I only put in what was 100% relevant to my life, and not other peoples, so it isn't kiss and tell. Although with changed names there is some interesting/funny things I put in that are on the rude side, but humourous,lol, Linda
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Definitely a conscious effort to be a recluse, to investigate who you are, and what you are. Understanding 'self' is important. I don't worry about some things others say, such as, 'what's it to me?'. Writers set that challenge. I say, Go with your own flow.
Ian
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I don't worry about some things others say, such as, 'what's it to me?'
No, it's fatal to worry about what other people will think while you're writing. But, if what someone writes is all about themselves, I don't think they can be hurt and surprised if I (or agents/editors/best friends) aren't interested. It's up to the writer to make it clear in the text what will be interesting to me. All too often they don't.
Emma
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Damn, I thought I'd closed that quotation box properly. And 'I...aren't'...? Oh dear, it's too early for getting things right.
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