Intro to Fiction

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Intro to Fiction
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• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

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From Julia Keller

• Fiction isnt truth, but it can tell the truth.
• . . . sadly, the absolute line between fact and
  fiction . . . is being smudged by those such as
  Frey who truly dont respect either.
• Fact needs fiction. It needs fiction to tell the
  rest of the story, the story that lives not in
  archives or transcripts or photographs, but in
  the innate human desire to make stories out of
  experiences.
• Ultimately, fact and fiction are trying to do
  the same thing.

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For Next Time

• Two stories
• T. C. Boyles Greasy Lake
• Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find
• Do some informal writing doesnt have to be
  typed. Just for you to do some thinking about the
  stories.
• For each story
• Which characters are the most memorable? What
  traits do they seem to have, or behaviors, or
  physical attributes, that make them so?
• Why tell these stories about these characters at
  this moment in their lives? Does somebody change?
  Or is there some other reason this moment in
  their lives is worth telling?