Tuesday, January 09, 2007

It really shouldn't be ...

... all about oneself. James Fenton on keeping oneself out of the story: Less deceived. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Of course, as Fenton notes, there is the problem of readers assuming that everything one writes is autobiographical. After all, one of the fun things about writing fiction is ... making things up.

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