Comments for Eva Holland http://evaholland.com Freelance writer and editor Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The World Hum Submissions Inbox is Open by Annabel Candy http://evaholland.com/2011/08/10/the-world-hum-submissions-inbox-is-open/#comment-695 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:16:34 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=542#comment-695 Thank you Eva, about to send you a story idea now:)

]]> Comment on New Job: Associate Editor at Up Here Publishing by Erin http://evaholland.com/2012/02/28/new-job-associate-editor-at-up-here-publishing/#comment-664 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:39:11 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=707#comment-664 Congrats Eva!
Erin

]]> Comment on New Job: Associate Editor at Up Here Publishing by evaholland http://evaholland.com/2012/02/28/new-job-associate-editor-at-up-here-publishing/#comment-654 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:57:53 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=707#comment-654 Thanks, Ben! And yep, I’m sure I’ll find time – love me some travel movies.

]]> Comment on New Job: Associate Editor at Up Here Publishing by Ben Keene http://evaholland.com/2012/02/28/new-job-associate-editor-at-up-here-publishing/#comment-650 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:02:20 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=707#comment-650 Congrats, Eva. Hopefully you’ll also have time for the occasional movie review (I’m thinking, of course, about Wanderlust).

]]> Comment on The Rumpus Talks Truth in Memoir by Davis http://evaholland.com/2012/01/25/the-rumpus-talks-truth-in-memoir/#comment-630 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:08:23 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=653#comment-630 Elliott is quite right. Memoir and autobiography, though formally nonfiction, are literature. That is to say: they are art. And as art the product ought be creative and interesting to read, and that a thing actually happened is no sufficient justification for including it in your narrative.

You should never lie, if for no other reasons than that lies can be found out and a seductive lie may mislead even you. If a fact no longer fits your intended narrative, it is plainly unnecessary to your story and you owe a duty to your reader not to burden them with it. A crucial skill in art is knowing what to omit. Without that skill, a Michelangelo sculpture is just a block of marble from the quarry and the finest tale is just a bunch of things that happened.

Take responsibility for your own story by deciding what is important and what is just something that happened. Your judgment of this will unsurprisingly change over time. Your task as author is not merely to collect facts and lay them out for your reader to make sense of, but to select and marshal those facts in order to tell the truth that you believe is behind them. Your readers expect no less.

]]> Comment on Sitka. Swoon. by evaholland http://evaholland.com/2012/01/20/sitka-swoon/#comment-625 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:25:25 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=647#comment-625 Mike – Fact! Lola – Yes! I’m dying to get back there in summer.

]]> Comment on Sitka. Swoon. by Lola http://evaholland.com/2012/01/20/sitka-swoon/#comment-621 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:00:58 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=647#comment-621 Gorgeous!

]]> Comment on Sitka. Swoon. by Mikeachim http://evaholland.com/2012/01/20/sitka-swoon/#comment-618 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:54:37 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=647#comment-618 That’s….not an ugly landscape. It’s a fact.

]]> Comment on My Year in Writing and Reading by Lola http://evaholland.com/2011/12/30/my-year-in-writing-and-reading/#comment-595 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:00:09 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=588#comment-595 Looking forward to more Eva in 2012! And congrats on the latest gigs as well (you mentioned on FB)

]]> Comment on My Year in Writing and Reading by JoAnna http://evaholland.com/2011/12/30/my-year-in-writing-and-reading/#comment-592 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:47:52 +0000 http://evaholland.com/?p=588#comment-592 Congrats on a good year – despite the roller coaster! I’m excited to see what you have in store at UpHere for 2012.

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