2006-09-03 08:11:45 · 10 answers · asked by Hobby 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
went to shop,got caught up in armed robbery,took hostage for 14 hours ,driven across uk in boot of car,fell in luv with kidnappers daughter,been married 16 years,that good enough,? if not we got 4 kids too.
2006-09-03 08:16:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read the paper; watch the news. Life's full of "interesting incidents."
"Don't let your interest in fiction be thwarted by a misguided sense of what the genre entails. I too used to think that novelists made everything up while journalists stuck with the facts.
But I've come to believe that the central difference is that fiction writers render facts — employing dialogue and scene, the twin devices of dramatic narrative — rather than simply reporting them as journalists usually do. Given a choice between show and tell, fiction writers prefer the former. Their narrative style is dramatic while journalism relies on summary.
There's no doubt that journalists live or die by one cardinal rule, articulated by the late John Hersey, who alternated between reportage ("Hiroshima") and fiction ("A Bell for Adano" won the Pulitzer for fiction): None of this is made up.
But that doesn't mean fiction writers don't care about facts, or that a novel or short story is a product solely of the imagination. Just the opposite, fiction writers say. Facts generate fiction.
This weekend, I read "Hell at the Breech," a powerful novel by Alabama writer Tom Franklin based on a violent clash between farmers and town folk in the late 1890s. In an author's note, Franklin acknowledges a "large debt of gratitude" to a work of history, "The Mitcham War of Clarke County, Alabama" by Harvey H. Jackson, Joyce White Burrage, and James A. Cox.
"Real life is so full of great stories," Franklin told interviewer Robert Birnbaum on the literary website identitytheory.com. "And, of course, every novel written, every story written has some basis in ... something."
Take Hemingway, for example:
"While Hemingway was living in Cuba beginning in 1940 with his third wife Martha Gellhorn, one of his favorite pastimes was to sail and fish in his boat, named the Pilar. General biographical consensus holds that the model for Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea was, at least in part, the Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes.
Fuentes, born in 1897 on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, migrated to Cuba when he was six years old and met Hemingway there in 1928. In the 1930s, Hemingway hired him to look after his boat. During Hemingway's Cuban years a strong friendship formed between Hemingway and Fuentes. For almost thirty years, Fuentes served as the captain of the Pilar; this included time during which Hemingway did not live in Cuba."
2006-09-03 15:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My grandfather lived in Venice, Italy. He led a happy, fulfilled life, until one day he met his death in the most amazing way: a pig fell on him from a balcony! I never quite recovered from that episode and it's the first time I'm telling it to anyone... NOTE: *wink*
2006-09-03 15:23:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
family have pet rabbit. go away on holiday. next door neighbours find their dog with rabbit in mouth, dead. they look through many pet shops and newspaper ads and manage to find one that looks same before neighbours get home. put it in hutch.
next day they are talking over fence and holiday man says he's had a great holiday. other man inquires after health of rabbit. holiday man says " darnedest thing, the rabbit died just before we went away and we buried it at the bottom of the garden... now its alive and in the hutch!"
2006-09-03 15:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely something interesting happened to you at some time in your life. Use some imagination.
2006-09-03 15:18:19 · answer #5 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting is as interesting does. Go and create one.
2006-09-04 05:33:06 · answer #6 · answered by Belinda B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Go outside walk the street may be you might find a hooker who will narrate her biography.
We are not here assist for freelancers earn their journalist commission.
2006-09-03 15:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by Elsalsis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 12 years ago i walked to the playground with my cousins and my younger brother on his birthday and my bro got his head stuck in the roundabout while he was showing off.
that was interesting and funny!
2006-09-03 15:17:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
saw a bloke stick his **** out of a top flat window run downstairs and throw stones at it
2006-09-03 15:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by Edward B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the headless chicken ??strange but true!!
2006-09-03 15:17:56 · answer #10 · answered by m-jay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋