tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249999112430764239.post4344953488063654108..comments2023-05-28T16:12:22.977+03:00Comments on Wee Fictions: The Next Stop Is Croy and other storiesAndrew McCallum Crawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10741474262548635774noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249999112430764239.post-41763820643519271522011-10-04T13:29:17.298+03:002011-10-04T13:29:17.298+03:00I suspect non-writers worry more about stuff like ...I suspect non-writers worry more about stuff like that. I don’t know you well and so I’m not going to know what’s based on fact or what’s completely fictitious and I prefer it that way. I’m reading a book just now where I <i>do</i> know quite a bit about the author and I can just feel the autobiographical elements seeping out of the page and I’m finding it very hard to connect to the book as a work of fiction in its own right. She’s just done what we all do, used settings and happenings familiar to herself to improve the book’s sense of reality but I feel like I’m reading the novel wearing x-ray vision specs. <br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com