So, what's it like to write a book?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hard.

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“Most Sex Obsessed” Byz—“Hard,” hmmm?

Ahem. Back to the subject at hand. I cannot write fiction and I admire people who can write novels, plays, etc. Well, those who can do it WELL, anyway. I’m more of a reporter than a “writer,” my job is to collect the facts and arrange them in an attractive and interesting form.

I’m also the only person on earth dumb enough to write biographies of people like Theda Bara and Anna Held, who NO ONE has ever heard of . . .

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P.S. Lux—did I ever tell you my theory about how Truman Capote and Carol Channing were the same person?

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I once walked up to the checkout at a book store with a book having a picture of a dark-glasses-wearing Truman Capote in one hand and Whitley Streiber’s “Communion” with the dark-eyed alien in the other. It broke him up.That’s MY theory of Truman Capote.
I’ve written a lot of fiction (including an entire science fiction NOVEL), but haven’t gotten any of it printed outside the amateur press, despite a lot of trying. But I’m not giving up. On the other hand, virtually all of my nonfiction I can get into print somewhere. A less thick-skinned person would conclude that he is not capable of writing fiction. But hope springs eternal.

I did get one piece of fiction published online. Look for my ghost story at http://www.saugus.net in the 1998 archives.

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Hehehe! I think you may be right about that, Eve! (I can’t stop giggling right now). Since you’re the expert, if you say it’s true, then I believe it. :slight_smile:

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OK, Truman and Carol (I REFUSE to talk about Al or George today)—

About ten years ago, Robert Morse was appearing as Truman Capote in a one-man show, and local TV stations were running old interviews with the original Truman. I was in the kitchen listening to but not looking at the TV, and I hear Truman talking—it suddenly dawned on me that HE SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE CAROL CHANNING!

Listen to 'em sometime. SAME voice. There is NO way two people could sound like that. And if you take off Carol Channing’s wig and makeup, that could very well be Truman Capote under there. So my theory is, he didn’t die, Carol just ran out of books to write.