Starting a blog
I am inspired by Sarah to start blogging and share some thoughts to my friends and family (and I guess the whole world). They should enjoy it, right? You all get to comment so it is an interactive experience. Also, loved ones can check on me, as I know you all want to, to see how I am doing from afar.
Question: Have you heard about the "Million Little Pieces" whoopeetodo? I was wondering what people thought about the fiction/nonfiction debate that has been going on, specifically in terms of whether or not people have an obligation to tell the "truth" in a memoir. It seems like a memoir is about one's own truth, not a journalistic recreation of reality. Btw, Matt has an interpretation that is based on redneck theory, but I think it is a more metaphysical issue!
That is some food for thought, do what you will with it!!
Personally, I am getting back up to speed, slowly, after being in the hospital. Lindy told me to take each day one by one, my Dad said that I needed daily goals, and my mother is just concerned, so I have some good family support. Matt is adapting to my being home which is a daily challenge. I am getting back to taking care of myself, which I worked on while I was away, and also adapting to daily responsibilities. Hard to do, according to Matt, because I have always had such a sheltered existence. I can't help but differ about what parenting involves!
Anyway, this is enough of a blog entry for the first time. More to come, I promise!
2 comments:
About memoirs: I don't know too much about the specific controversy (just a little). But...whenever I read a memoir, I can't help but think about the ways the writer "fictionalized" it to shape it as narrative...not to mention, even if you were trying your hardest to stick strictly to "the truth" as you remember it, we all know what a tricky and fuzzy and subjective thing memory can be. So I am not actually too upset or vexed over this memoir controversy (though maybe someone could convince me I should be).
I am not upset about it either although I have heard on the news people be upset that he wasn't "truthful" in that factual records contradicted what he wrote. Matt (or my mother, I can't remember ;-) told me that he claimed that his girlfriend committed suicide when it turned out she didn't and that he said he was in jail when it turned out he didn't. I really don't know what facts are true or not, nor do I care to research it. I like the title of "A million little pieces," though. I saw a bit where he was on Oprah and she was grilling him. She was, like, "Oh my god you lied, how dare you," with venom coming out of her eyes. Actually, I have noticed an angry Oprah on television the last few times I walked by the show on television in the afternoon while I was doing something else...
Anyway, that may or not address your comment or my original post!
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