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Originally Posted by gmw
I should point out that, for me anyway, it is not a matter of the entire story being written from these flashes of false memory. They are, most often, just flashes, not contiguous scenes. ... Although, when things are going really well, the dialogue almost seems to write itself, but it's not something I can rely on. And even when things have gone well, there is still a lot of the work you describe making sure everything is right. Memory is not always reliable, and the characters sometimes get side-tracked and waffle on more than they should (I wonder where they get that from  ). |
Exactly. Otherwise we'd be stenographers, not writers.