I've been reading all your LJ Idol entries (and loving the WIP you've been posting for them, even if I never comment because I'm just A CREEPY LURKER), and I don't know you very well.
I think that this entry, coupled with the WIP, gives me quite a bit of information about you, and more than either piece would alone. I've never thought much about if fiction or nonfiction tells us more about an author---because I think it depends on the author, as some people have mentioned in other comments. Some authors are more willing to be truthful when they write their nonfiction, and others are not for various personal reason. I do think that generally fiction allows for the revelation of more unintentional truths about the author because they sort of sneak in, and the author is less guarded because they are writing for characters (even if those characters are a part of the author in some way).
However, I think your combination of the WIP and this nonfiction piece show how fiction and nonfiction can each reveal different facets of the same truth, or different truths entirely, about the writer.
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Date: 2011-05-11 05:56 pm (UTC)I think that this entry, coupled with the WIP, gives me quite a bit of information about you, and more than either piece would alone. I've never thought much about if fiction or nonfiction tells us more about an author---because I think it depends on the author, as some people have mentioned in other comments. Some authors are more willing to be truthful when they write their nonfiction, and others are not for various personal reason. I do think that generally fiction allows for the revelation of more unintentional truths about the author because they sort of sneak in, and the author is less guarded because they are writing for characters (even if those characters are a part of the author in some way).
However, I think your combination of the WIP and this nonfiction piece show how fiction and nonfiction can each reveal different facets of the same truth, or different truths entirely, about the writer.
And...that's my two cents!