Writers Are Not Their Stories - Jonathan Blum
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Jonathan Blum grew up in Miami and graduated from UCLA and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of two books of fiction: The Usual Uncertainties (Rescue Press, 2019), a story collection, and Last Word (Rescue Press, 2013), a novella. Both were named one of the best books of the year by Iowa Public Radio, and The Usual Uncertainties was named one of the 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2019 by Electric Literature. Blum has twice appeared on KCRW's Bookworm. His short stories have been published in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Playboy, and Shanxi Literature, among others. His short story, "The White Spot," which was published in Electric Literature with an introduction by Deborah Eisenberg, appears in the award-winning anthology The Best Peace Fiction (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). He has taught fiction writing at The University of Iowa, Drew University, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland, and a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He has also been a guest writer at the Tianjin Binhai New Area International Writing Program in China. He lives in Los Angeles.
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So true. I find it can be stifling when people think everything you write is something you personally experienced or believe. It happens so much. Unless a story is explicitly an autobiography it's fiction..even if huge parts of it are emotionally true or things the writer lived.
I wonder if the people who expect all movies and books to be real as if it's real life and not just plausible is because they're emotionally immature to where they have no imagination.
How wonderful is this: the story takes its own life requiring its own logic, its own flow. So important to hear again & again & again. Thank you.
i think this lesson is more important to learn for audiences these days than writers.. some people genuinely cannot tell the artist apart from their work..
So true! Even when I write and perform stand-up comedy at open mic nights, while some stuff is based on real life, other stuff is a little based on real life, but also exaggerated and not entirely based on truth. It's actually a struggle to meet people who genuinely want to get to know me because it's like they just see me perform on a stage and no-one takes the time to have a conversation beyond talking about jobs or surface level stuff. It's lonely.
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Love this comment!
I think it can depend on the writer. In some cases, I can't easily keep myself out of my work; but at times I feel quite chameleon-esque, able to shift from genre to genre, based on understanding I've cultivated from my experience of different types of stories.
I don't write much. But I have a sense that any character that I write will have some elements of myself and the people I know in it, but only bits and pieces. That character that is insecure and seeking validation isn't who I am, but I understand them from the life experiences I have with those emotions. That character who is charismatic but unreliable isn't my childhood friend, but I understand that dynamic because of experiences with them. Anyone who presumes to know the writer because of what they've written is being unfair. But we're wired to see the connections, even when there is only a thread of truth there.
In my ten years or so of writing screenplays on my own as a hobby? I can say for a fact that I’ve written plenty of characters in the past who aren’t like myself in real life. lol
Writers Are Not Their Stories - Stories Are Their Writers -> Sun Tzu 90000000000000 B.C.
Yes, true, writers are not stories but writers visualise the logic and sequence of stories bringing in characters, their action and locations with a nessage to the general audience
What the text needs. -- exactly!!!
Extremely informative.
We as humans are so multi faceted, i think its almost impossible to NOT include a degree of a writer's traits/persona into any of their characters. virtually impossible.
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until they self-insert...
Its always very apparent and very cringe when they do, though. Its almost impossible to hide self inserts in a story.
Like Kathleen Kennedy?
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What do you like about this one?
It's interesting
That writers aren’t their stories 🍻
There's an obsession in the US with trying to find out too much about a writer's personal life. If the author chooses to reveal this info, that's fine. But stop trying to dissect and analyze private experiences that someone doesn't want to expose.
sounds a bit like plagiarism in what he admits to