Just wanted to share an interesting article - particularly with my writers group - on how blogs can lead to books. Perhaps this will rejuvenate our group blog...
Also Geraldine Brooks was recently awarded the Pulitzer for her latest work of fiction, March, about Mr. March from Little Women. I've been wanting to read her non-fiction work, Nine Parts Desire, for a number of years and recently picked it up at the bookstore. When she was interviewed recently about her award and why she switched from non-fiction to fiction, she responded that with fiction you get the best of both worlds. When she writes non-fiction, there are limitations. Sometimes there are gaps where no adequate data exists and you can go no farther. Non-fiction does not allow you to fill in the gaps, to guess. However with fiction, you can take some historical facts and can let your imagination fill voids. So she is able to create and imagine where history drops off. This resonated with me as, like some others in the writing group, I debated whether or not to take the non-fiction writing course over the short story class. Thus Geraldine's response reinforced that you don't have to pick one or the other, they don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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