Comments on: Lies, memoirs, emotional honesty, and scaring The Deets https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: The Other Mike https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20820 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:33:21 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/04/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20820 But, in this case, I’m the Mike…and that’s not how it happened.

🙂

But, there is no way we would hit you with the pitcher and run, the beer fine would break us.

There is only one reason why people make up memoir–because it sells as memoir when it wouldn’t as fiction. And there are many reasons why people make shit up, but my feeling is it boils down to two things–
1–people like the weird and freaks, to marvel at and shake their heads or fists at…and
2–being totally honest, both in facts and emotionally, is really really really hard for most people, so they give up and either get their freak on or rely on stereotypes to carry the load and get them off the hook.

Sorry for the delay, Deets reminded me last night that you blogged on this and I needed to step up and comment. 😉 Hope the after party last night was part of why you slept so well.

]]> By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20716 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:32:23 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/04/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20716 See how that works? I was emotionally honest without being completely honest there. Like, I totally protected you by not telling everyone that you cried like a baby when I gave a 20-minute lecture on the evils of the second person point of view.

]]> By: Ed Kohler https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20715 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:10:12 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/04/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20715 That’s how it went. Mike and I survived. Barely. Time to unabridge the memoir.

]]> By: shokkou https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20714 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:26:22 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/2008/03/04/lies-memoirs-emotional-honesty-and-scaring-the-deets/#comment-20714 “BULLSHIT!” she cried, and let slip the dogs of war! That’s just some excellent sh!t. While you’re between jobs, perhaps you could write a creative non-fiction memoir of your life as you recall it thus far. I’d buy that. Don’t forget to remember the part where you describe your sexcapes with Doughty and Westerberg. CREATIVE! :o)

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