After talking to Wei Wei today, i learnt a very important thing about writing. The conversation was in the context of the post of the girls and I being at NTUC.
Sometimes when I'm writing, my mind just spins so fast and its so focused on my perspective that I'll leave out certain content unintentionally. But thanks to the training I receive from Secondary School english and JC General Paper, I always try to qualify best whatever i say, even though it may sometime turn out to be insufficient.
But there are also times where accurate content is put up, but just not to other's tastes.
Blogs, Weblogs, personal online diaries. From whichever point of view, its always a very personal thing. Most content would be written from the blogger's point of view. Therefore I do not think that there are such content that are fiction, because they were my genuine thoughts and sentiments. What would barely resemble "fiction", would be information that is pending to be verified. My personal thoughts and opinions are, obviously, from my point of view(POV). They represent my experience and is testament to what had actually happened from my POV.
Just as Wei Wei has done today, she clarified with me about the problem about my post and made clear to me about which portion of it "pissed her off" as she said so level-headed-ly. Ironic that its been months(?) since that post and I'm only knowing of her true response after all these time. The tip of the communication iceberg. That post about her has been long gone so don't bother searching for it.
Simply put, it isn't fiction if it hasn't been clarified. If it has been clarified by concerning parties and still unedited, now thats virtual reality.
So what's real then?
8.42PM
19th October 2007
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