[stylist] my memoir piece, "Faye"

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

That's the challenge of a memoirist-- what do you share, and what do you
keep to yourself. Generally, those who write memoirs and personal essays
believe everything should be on the menu in terms of writing, but
personally, it's difficult. Writing what I did about my mom and our
relationship, it's difficult, and I've wrote about it before, but if my mom
ever read any of it, she would not be pleased. A memoirist tries to be
honest and transparent but it's difficult. And even divulging things about
myself can be very difficult. I'm not an open-book person, and yet I chose
to become a memoirist-- what can I say, I'm a complex person, smile. Often
nonfiction writers will change names and even circumstances to maintain
anonymity, but it can still be difficult to share so much. I will say that
if people want to be rude or mean or shallow in any way, don't expect a lot
of protection when people write about you, LOL!

But as a fiction writer, you can take your real life and use it for
inspiration and even character development. Usually great fiction is
inspired by real people and life, even genre fiction like fantasy and SciFi,
smile.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vejas
Vasiliauskas via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 12:03 AM
To: Debby Phillips <semisweetdebby at gmail.com>; Writer's Division Mailing
List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas <alpineimagination at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [stylist] my memoir piece, "Faye"

Thank you so much for enjoying my story. Writing it has really helped me put
things in perspective. Wheras before I would have made excuses for her, I am
not going to anymore.
The truth is, though, I don't think I will actually publish this in a
magazine or anything. IF Faye (or someone else) wrote an article about me
and published it, I would feel really bad.
Some people, like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, write about broken
friendship--but that's just not me.
Vejas

On 8/4/15, Debby Phillips <semisweetdebby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Vejas, I liked your story very much.  I must say, Faye seems rather 
> shallow to me.  I hope someday in your future you find a
> wonderful friend to share life with.    Debby
>

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