Comments on: Exceptions http://sararyan.com/2009/11/exceptions/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jodie http://sararyan.com/2009/11/exceptions/#comment-8993 Jodie Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:26:51 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=1460#comment-8993 It seems I am always meeting people like this - gah please stop! I think there are these kind of people (usually it turns out they've been through some pretty intese therapy due to having had a mental breakdown/severe personal trauma - at least the ones I meet seem to mention this a lot) but it seems that in books people who have been described as closed off, uptight, intensely secretive etc will just start blurting their whole personal history. That's not realistic. So yes fiction could do with credible blurters like you say. It seems I am always meeting people like this – gah please stop! I think there are these kind of people (usually it turns out they’ve been through some pretty intese therapy due to having had a mental breakdown/severe personal trauma – at least the ones I meet seem to mention this a lot) but it seems that in books people who have been described as closed off, uptight, intensely secretive etc will just start blurting their whole personal history. That’s not realistic. So yes fiction could do with credible blurters like you say.

]]> By: Sara http://sararyan.com/2009/11/exceptions/#comment-8932 Sara Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:12:28 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=1460#comment-8932 Ann, other folks reading the post elsewhere are saying similar things -- apparently both L.A. and Pittsburgh are hotbeds of Reasonless Revelations, for instance -- and it's making me think that the revelations that <em>seem</em> reasonless are all perfectly reasonable, as far as the revelators (did I just make that word up?) are concerned. So maybe a more interesting task for the writer would be to provide credible narrative rationales for sudden, seemingly inexplicable confidences from strangers. Ann, other folks reading the post elsewhere are saying similar things — apparently both L.A. and Pittsburgh are hotbeds of Reasonless Revelations, for instance — and it’s making me think that the revelations that seem reasonless are all perfectly reasonable, as far as the revelators (did I just make that word up?) are concerned.

So maybe a more interesting task for the writer would be to provide credible narrative rationales for sudden, seemingly inexplicable confidences from strangers.

]]> By: Ann http://sararyan.com/2009/11/exceptions/#comment-8910 Ann Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:59:14 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=1460#comment-8910 Actually, a lot of people do that. Or at least, they do it to me. More people don't than do, but every now and then someone will end up next to me on the bus or an airplane or start chatting in line at the grocery store. Interestingly, it feels just as incredible in real life as it does in a story - even as the person's talking to me, I often think, 'Wow, this doesn't seem realistic.' Actually, a lot of people do that. Or at least, they do it to me. More people don’t than do, but every now and then someone will end up next to me on the bus or an airplane or start chatting in line at the grocery store. Interestingly, it feels just as incredible in real life as it does in a story – even as the person’s talking to me, I often think, ‘Wow, this doesn’t seem realistic.’

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