Comments on: 9/07/09 http://ericshonkwiler.com/2009/09/90709/ The continued life of an aspiring writer. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:44:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: nicopolitan http://ericshonkwiler.com/2009/09/90709/comment-page-1/#comment-80 nicopolitan Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:55:10 +0000 http://ericshonkwiler.com/?p=92#comment-80 As I'm sure you're aware, the line between art and artist is rarely ever clear or still despite the flat fact that they are two interdependent entities. Your writing (I've only read that excerpt from Long Road Home) is starkly different from your blogging, but you're totally right in that one informs the other. So what I'm gathering is that as of now, one has been informing the other more more so than the vice versa, and you're looking for a balance? As I’m sure you’re aware, the line between art and artist is rarely ever clear or still despite the flat fact that they are two interdependent entities. Your writing (I’ve only read that excerpt from Long Road Home) is starkly different from your blogging, but you’re totally right in that one informs the other.

So what I’m gathering is that as of now, one has been informing the other more more so than the vice versa, and you’re looking for a balance?

]]> By: clowncar http://ericshonkwiler.com/2009/09/90709/comment-page-1/#comment-75 clowncar Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:10:07 +0000 http://ericshonkwiler.com/?p=92#comment-75 Sorry. Sorry.

]]> By: Kristan http://ericshonkwiler.com/2009/09/90709/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Kristan Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:34:21 +0000 http://ericshonkwiler.com/?p=92#comment-74 "Part of it was this place." At first I thought you meant the place where you physically are (UCR?) but now I think you mean the blog...? I'm sorry things didn't go smoothly -- although I suppose you sort of predicted that, no? "Too good to be true"? -- but it sounds like you're sure in your heart/gut, and I always think it's good to trust and follow your heart/gut, regardless of outcome. Also, from a writing standpoint, I'm with you: all fiction has real personal experience blended into it. Usually but not always the writer's. Me, I can write "non-fiction," but I find it very difficult to stick 100% to the truth, so "fiction" is the safer label. (That said, I would argue that the vast majority of my work is "true" fiction, not just stuff I call fiction. Certainly all of my novels/novel ideas are.) “Part of it was this place.”

At first I thought you meant the place where you physically are (UCR?) but now I think you mean the blog…?

I’m sorry things didn’t go smoothly — although I suppose you sort of predicted that, no? “Too good to be true”? — but it sounds like you’re sure in your heart/gut, and I always think it’s good to trust and follow your heart/gut, regardless of outcome.

Also, from a writing standpoint, I’m with you: all fiction has real personal experience blended into it. Usually but not always the writer’s. Me, I can write “non-fiction,” but I find it very difficult to stick 100% to the truth, so “fiction” is the safer label.

(That said, I would argue that the vast majority of my work is “true” fiction, not just stuff I call fiction. Certainly all of my novels/novel ideas are.)

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