TURNING REAL PEOPLE INTO CHARACTERS IS AN ACT OF TRANSLATION.

Autor: DANCYGER, LILLY
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Zdroj: Writer's Digest; 2025 Yearbook, p54-56, 3p
Abstrakt: This article from Writer's Digest discusses the challenges of turning real people into characters in memoir writing. The author shares their experience of capturing their past self and others in their memoir, highlighting the craft and interpersonal challenges involved. They emphasize the importance of representing characters as accurately and honestly as possible, while acknowledging the limitations of capturing the complexity of real people. The article also explores the delicate balance between depicting characters in a way that is true to the author's perspective and respecting the individuality of the people being written about. [Extracted from the article]
Databáze: Supplemental Index