Viva Brighton Issue #58 December 2017

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COLUMN ....................... Lizzie Enfield Notes from North Village Illustration by Joda (@joda_art) “She’s such a liar,” my son tells our dinner guests. “That never happened.” He’s commenting, with some feeling, about a story I’m telling. I think ‘lying’ is too strong a word. I might be embellishing it a little, for comic effect, adding a few details for interest. But I’m not lying. There’s an apocryphal story about a columnist who handed in an unlikely column and was asked by his editor if it was actually true. “Every single thing happened, at some point, to someone,” he replied. “Just not necessarily at the same time, or in the order I recounted them, or to me.” Fair enough. I have earned my writer’s licence, which allows me to embellish and appropriate stories where, erm, appropriate. But son has issues with me taking some tiny thing, some trivial snippet of conversation and turning it into a dinner table anecdote. He’s had enough and is retaliating. “Nothing you ever say is true.” “That’s because she’s a fiction writer,” my husband intervenes. I’m not sure if he’s stepping in to defend me or just between us. “She spends her days making everything up and has forgotten how to differentiate.” I’m stuck between a rock and hard place. I do spend all day every day inventing casts of whole other families and friends, with which I people my novels. It’s very hard to do this without occasionally referencing real actual life. Sometimes one of the characters bears a passing resemblance to someone I actually know. But I try my hardest to make sure the sum of any individual character’s character traits never actually adds up to an actual person. Sometimes I deliberately make them unappealing, so that none of the appealing people I know will see themselves in anything I’ve written. It doesn’t always work. In my first novel the antihero was a balding, middle-age spreading, greying, generally going-to-seed man. A lot of my male friends seemed to think it was them! And when I looked, closely, I realized that that in my mind I still viewed them as ten years younger. Occasionally I slip a real life incident into a novel, like the time a seagull walked into the kitchen and couldn’t find its way out again, causing mayhem with its agitated flurries around the table. It was probably the one real thing amid pages of made up things, but everyone I had told about the incident assumed that everything else in the novel was based on real events too. “I can’t win either way,” I protest. “When I write fictional books you accuse me of putting in too much truth and when I tell a story you accuse me of not sticking to it closely enough.” “She makes everything up,” repeats my son, to our assembled guests. “And then borrows from our lives when her imagination fails her,” says my daughter. Such a supportive family! But I try not to mind and instead think of them more as a source of material. ....39....
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