tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091286.post291449622040381858..comments2023-07-03T00:46:29.189-07:00Comments on Pen On Fire / Writers on Writing: James FreyBarbara DeMarco-Barretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11407113008901754361noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091286.post-77750596816380925142007-11-10T21:15:00.000-08:002007-11-10T21:15:00.000-08:00I agree with you, Frey was the scapegoat for so ma...I agree with you, Frey was the scapegoat for so many jackals. Thousands of talented writers will likely now never dare to try and publish their memoirs even if every word is true.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16009820745643969614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091286.post-79538766639058136292007-11-10T09:27:00.000-08:002007-11-10T09:27:00.000-08:00Amy, So many novelists use their lives in their fi...Amy, <BR/>So many novelists use their lives in their fiction. I just had an author on my show--Emily Listfield, who wrote <I>Waiting to Surface</I>--who says, point blank, that she based the novel on her husband's disappearance nine years before. She fictionalized so she could embellish.<BR/><BR/>I love novels based on something from the authors' lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091286.post-92084722254763956942007-11-10T08:09:00.000-08:002007-11-10T08:09:00.000-08:00As I'm writing my first novel and much of it is ba...As I'm writing my first novel and much of it is based on personal experience and my own life, I hope nothing is wrong with a novel based on truth. I think when you write what you know--your truth--it gives the book authenticity. It makes the reader sit back and say, "I've felt that way," or "I completely understand this". That's what I want people to say when they read my stuff, anyway. I want it to touch them the way "A Million Little Pieces" touched me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091286.post-38361693494925357602007-11-09T08:34:00.000-08:002007-11-09T08:34:00.000-08:00You are right when you say that he was lambasted b...You are right when you say that he was lambasted because he sold a bestseller. Then again, he did go on Oprah and lead every body to believe this was legit. You are right to say that it was handled incorrectly by his publisher, my Frey himself. The public is easily duped and writer's are loose with the truth, and have no problem with it. It's a bad mix. But it's also a lack of responsibiliy on the readers part. It's not like an Enron where he took everyone's money. They just lied to them. Like JT leroy did. The magnitude is missing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091286.post-64693661851307906782007-11-09T08:24:00.000-08:002007-11-09T08:24:00.000-08:00Yes, yes, yes.His next memoir should be titled Thr...Yes, yes, yes.<BR/><BR/>His next memoir should be titled <I>Thrown Under the Bus</I>.<BR/><BR/>I have a feeling that every fiction piece I've written contains a higher percentage of memoir than the percentage of fiction Frey called memoir.<BR/><BR/>See also Augusten Burroughs.<BR/><BR/>We love to set people up. We love to knock them down.<BR/><BR/>We outgrow our G.I. Joes, but we never outgrow the thrill of manipulating others.<BR/><BR/>Sad.Dwight's Writing Manifestohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11583719276706757556noreply@blogger.com