Interesting. Thanks for the elaboration. I've never played something like that, nor really even heard of something like that outside of Little Women, which obviously didn't have the benefit of Wiki! I guess the thing that confused me is the idea of writing fiction in the guise of non-fiction.
The books in my dissertation include 2 books written *as* fiction that actually contain a whole bunch of non-fiction, one non-fiction that contains many of the narrative markers of fiction, and one mixed genre piece that contains fiction and non-fiction mixed together with few markers to indicate which is which. So this is kindof a major issue that I spend a lot of time thinking about.
It's interesting to me, additionally, to think of writing as a game. Writing is a job to me, and an onerous one at that right now. I wonder if I could learn something about loving what I do from such a thing? I got into this because I love reading and writing, and five years in, I can't feel that love anymore. Sigh. I wish I knew how to get back to that!
(Except I clearly love overly loquacious posts to strangers in LJ!)
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Date: 2006-03-28 02:04 pm (UTC)The books in my dissertation include 2 books written *as* fiction that actually contain a whole bunch of non-fiction, one non-fiction that contains many of the narrative markers of fiction, and one mixed genre piece that contains fiction and non-fiction mixed together with few markers to indicate which is which. So this is kindof a major issue that I spend a lot of time thinking about.
It's interesting to me, additionally, to think of writing as a game. Writing is a job to me, and an onerous one at that right now. I wonder if I could learn something about loving what I do from such a thing? I got into this because I love reading and writing, and five years in, I can't feel that love anymore. Sigh. I wish I knew how to get back to that!
(Except I clearly love overly loquacious posts to strangers in LJ!)