Comments on: Where Writing Can Take You http://cathschaffstump.com/archives/2010/03/10/where-writing-can-take-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-writing-can-take-you Catherine Schaff-Stump: Fledgling Writer Tue, 22 May 2012 19:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Catherine Schaff-Stump http://cathschaffstump.com/archives/2010/03/10/where-writing-can-take-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1283 Catherine Schaff-Stump Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:36:47 +0000 http://cathschaffstump.com/?p=2556#comment-1283 I'm usually writing along and surprised to find that my life has inserted itself unexpectedly. Rudy Rucker's Transrealist Manifesto, eh? Catherine I'm usually writing along and surprised to find that my life has inserted itself unexpectedly.

Rudy Rucker's Transrealist Manifesto, eh?

Catherine

]]> By: Sean Craven http://cathschaffstump.com/archives/2010/03/10/where-writing-can-take-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 Sean Craven Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:01:06 +0000 http://cathschaffstump.com/?p=2556#comment-1281 At this point, my most successful work (creatively successful, I mean) draws strongly on my life and personal experiences. Either I begin with part of my life that I'm trying to come to grips with and then bring in an element of the fantastic or I start with a fantastic idea or image and then pull in some autobiographical material. As I developed this approach, I found Rudy Rucker's Transrealist Manifesto to be quite useful. Even without the fantasy/sf elements, being the kind of person I am and having led the life I have, a lot of my straight autobiography has a distinctly pulpy tone to it... At this point, my most successful work (creatively successful, I mean) draws strongly on my life and personal experiences. Either I begin with part of my life that I'm trying to come to grips with and then bring in an element of the fantastic or I start with a fantastic idea or image and then pull in some autobiographical material. As I developed this approach, I found Rudy Rucker's Transrealist Manifesto to be quite useful.

Even without the fantasy/sf elements, being the kind of person I am and having led the life I have, a lot of my straight autobiography has a distinctly pulpy tone to it...

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