Blue and yellow

Today has been a busy one. I spent most of the day screenprinting in the studio and then came home to a webinar entitled Writing Sensitively About Real Events. The latter took the form of an online interview/discussion with three writers who have written novels which incorporate real events. It was more an account of how each writer came to choose their particular stories and what motivated them to write their novel, rather than a 'how to' write sensitively. Nevertheless, there was some interesting discussion about honesty (how completely honest should you be), dishonesty by omission (what do you leave out) and what is appropriate in terms of graphic descriptions. What was abundantly clear was the extent to which each author was fascinated by their story and how that was their driving force to complete their novel.