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Oct. 6th, 2004 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutHere is an example of why it is dangerous to be friends with writers.
My story in Best Bisexual Erotica 2 is definitely fiction, but I drew heavily and obviously on a bachelor party I attended while at Clarion. To the point where in the first draft, there was a character who retained the name of the person she was based on; I only very minimally changed it for the last draft.
I remember at one point, the person whose name I almost didn't change said, "you must all swear never to tell anyone about this!" Another of my classmates laughed and gave the appropriate reply: "Are you kidding? We're writers!"
Fortunately, when they found out, my Clarion-mates took it in stride. I believe they had a reading in my honor at a Christmas party a few years back, in fact. I wonder if they each took their own parts.
Of course, while we're on the subject, my story in Best Bisexual Erotica 1 isn't fiction at all, and I changed no names nor identifying features.
Usually, though, I digest the bits I borrow from life, friends, and lovers a little bit more than this.
My story in Best Bisexual Erotica 2 is definitely fiction, but I drew heavily and obviously on a bachelor party I attended while at Clarion. To the point where in the first draft, there was a character who retained the name of the person she was based on; I only very minimally changed it for the last draft.
I remember at one point, the person whose name I almost didn't change said, "you must all swear never to tell anyone about this!" Another of my classmates laughed and gave the appropriate reply: "Are you kidding? We're writers!"
Fortunately, when they found out, my Clarion-mates took it in stride. I believe they had a reading in my honor at a Christmas party a few years back, in fact. I wonder if they each took their own parts.
Of course, while we're on the subject, my story in Best Bisexual Erotica 1 isn't fiction at all, and I changed no names nor identifying features.
Usually, though, I digest the bits I borrow from life, friends, and lovers a little bit more than this.
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Date: 2004-10-06 10:21 am (UTC)right. i'll be digging those out when i get home.
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Date: 2004-10-06 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-06 10:31 am (UTC)one of my users just came into my cube to talk to me about the application she works on and the trouble we're having with it and this post was the non-frightening screen that i left up behind me when i talked to her.
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