However at twenty the poor girl had still never read anything other than comic books and "true confessions" magazines.
Well, she decides she'c going to be a writer ... what that meant to her was that she should write true confession stories. Only ... when she read those things she actually believed them, she actually thought they were true, and not just formula stories written by hack writers.
Well, if she's going to write a true confessions story she ash to have something to confess, but she has nothing to write about, so she decides that she needs some "experience"; so she goes to Chicago and finds a bar that to her looks "evil-looking," picks up a guy, and sure enough, he steals her money, and does her wrong.
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From "True Confessions Story" by Spencer Holst
Date: 2003-07-01 10:16 am (UTC)However at twenty the poor girl had still never read anything other than comic books and "true confessions" magazines.
Well, she decides she'c going to be a writer ... what that meant to her was that she should write true confession stories. Only ... when she read those things she actually believed them, she actually thought they were true, and not just formula stories written by hack writers.
Well, if she's going to write a true confessions story she ash to have something to confess, but she has nothing to write about, so she decides that she needs some "experience"; so she goes to Chicago and finds a bar that to her looks "evil-looking," picks up a guy, and sure enough, he steals her money, and does her wrong.
[from The Language of Cats and Other Stories by Spencer Holst, Avon, 1971 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380013177/103-9431451-7607069]
[And I might add, holy crap copies on Amazon are being offered for $900.]