you make me laugh stephan.
this is in response to the convo stephan and i were having in the last posts comment log. but i want everyone to see my question posed at the end.
umm in the sixth grade it wasn't much, more of a semi-autobiographical short story.
i don't have much of an imagination, unfortunately. but i do think i'm pretty good at lying.
do you think there's a difference?
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My first thought was that there isn't a difference because you have to be able to create something in order to lie, or at least be able to twist the truth enough so that it's not really truth anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut then again people tell me I'm creative and imaginative but I'm also a terrible, terrible liar.
Lying demands the ability to perceive the weaknesses of your counterpart ( gaps in knowledge, trustingness/gullibility etc. ) and to think of what combination of twisted facts could deceive him or her. It certainly has a creative element, but is itself far too practically aimed to be designated itself as an act of creativity.
ReplyDeleteSo why don't you write an autobiography in which you lie? I'm not saying a true autobiography would be uninteresting, but this way you could attempt to convert this skill of yours into an artistic means of expression.
I am oversimplifying a bit, but at least it's an idea.
perhaps it also demands the ability to believe just a little bit, just for a moment, that which one says...
ReplyDeleteInteresting. My Poetry professor used to encourage us to use the truth to make interesting lies in our poetry. Such as how he often portayed his father as a smoker, though he has never smoked in his life. When it comes to creative writing I wouldn't consider it as a lie, it's a story, an idea.
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to see your autobiographical novel, fictional or factual, even if it's only one page.
I often find when I try to write fiction it tends to veer toward autobiography, and when I write autobiography it quickly becomes fiction. It's fun.