http://bloggingwithbeth.com/a-word-of-caution-about-being-inauthentic/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://bloggingwithbeth.com/a-word-of-caution-about-being-inauthentic/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Priscilla Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:11:47 +0000 http://bloggingwithbeth.com/?p=31#comment-68 Great advice, Beth. Readers feel ripped off if the content is not true--if a writer says it happened this way when it didn't. Even fiction needs to be "true" in this sense. The late John Updike said that his job as a writer was to "clarify people's lives for them," or words to that effect (in a Fresh Air interview). Inauthentic content doesn't perform that service because it's intended only to serve the writer. Bad move. Great advice, Beth. Readers feel ripped off if the content is not true–if a writer says it happened this way when it didn’t. Even fiction needs to be “true” in this sense. The late John Updike said that his job as a writer was to “clarify people’s lives for them,” or words to that effect (in a Fresh Air interview). Inauthentic content doesn’t perform that service because it’s intended only to serve the writer. Bad move.

]]> http://bloggingwithbeth.com/a-word-of-caution-about-being-inauthentic/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Brian Panulla Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:09:06 +0000 http://bloggingwithbeth.com/?p=31#comment-67 Great post... authenticity is tricky in art. I have a lot of trouble with songwriting because I'm trying to be authentic, and write what I know and am passionate about. But seriously, who wants to hear songs about physics, software development management, and the NFL? Hmm... then again, Fountains of Wayne seems to have quite a following. Great post… authenticity is tricky in art. I have a lot of trouble with songwriting because I’m trying to be authentic, and write what I know and am passionate about. But seriously, who wants to hear songs about physics, software development management, and the NFL?
Hmm… then again, Fountains of Wayne seems to have quite a following.

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