Self-fiction

2022-01-10T04:21:44.337Z

I fear that many of these self-fiction series will be the beginning and end of a few careers. If to tell your own life you need a team of seven scriptwriters, your thing is not to write

How tempting is self-fiction in this world where telephones have a front camera because what interests us most in photographing is our own face. There is already more than one generation that does not know more orography than that of its face. And we all find our image under scrutiny; all faces are wrong. In addition to the physical demands, the demands of the inner world have been added. We do not ask for wealth but drama. It is important to say that you are oppressed in some way, because whoever perceives himself that way believes that he has no responsibility for his own existence. And I can't think of a worse oppression than to consider yourself incapable of making decisions.

This has many and varied consequences. The most superficial of these is self-fiction. There is very good autofiction, and it usually comes from authors who have done things before that deal with other human beings. But the wave of self-referential authors is here to stay, their drama more current, more critical success and more awards. I fear that many of these self-fiction series will be the beginning and end of a few careers. If to tell your own life you need a team of seven scriptwriters, your thing is not to write. If the first thing you write is a series about your life where you present yourself as a victim of the world, you are writing a bad check on behalf of the future. Because if the day comes when you want to tell something else, no one will be interested. Even in the case of very appreciable products.On that day when you want to write about other things - a day that may not even come - the world will be in something else and you will realize that what was interesting was not your series, but your character. And living off being a victim is within the reach of a savvy few. Autofiction is interesting and it works. But beware of wanting to make a career out of it. Being fashionable and being an author are not the same thing.

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