Writing from experience means turning bits and pieces of your real life into a fictionalized scene. All writers use their life details as jumping off points. It may be closely related to an actual event or it may spring from an idea that circles a real event and grows to be its own, imagined but almost real event. It’s difficult to know sometimes, even for the author.<\/p>\n
Fact:<\/strong> Like Marta I had a difficult time in school learning to read.\u00a0 Merged Fact & Fiction:<\/strong> While Marta struggled in school and saw no hope of going to college, I didn’t. I circumvented that problem and became a strong student as well as a school leader.<\/p>\n Fact:<\/strong> Marta and I took dance lessons in Bremerton near Callow Avenue. We had supportive instructors. Merged Fact and Fiction:<\/strong> Marta avoided school in favor of dancing. I loved school and found dancing as the only other thing that mattered<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Writers have lots of secrets that make appearances in their writing.\u00a0 Then again, readers attribute scenes in stories to actual events or real people, but they never really<\/em> know which is which unless they were involved in a particular event? Are there scenes in 84 Ribbons that you believe are real life turned to fiction? Write your thought in a comment to this blog post and I’ll tell you if you found a real experience or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writing from experience means turning bits and pieces of your real life into a fictionalized scene. All writers use their life details as jumping off points. It may be closely related to an actual event or it may spring from an idea that circles a real event and grows to be its own, imagined but almost real event. It’s difficult to know sometimes, even for the author. Fact: Like Marta I had a difficult time in school learning to read.\u00a0 Merged Fact & Fiction: While Marta struggled in school and saw no hope of going to college, I didn’t. I...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}