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]]> By: Margot McCuaig http://booksbywomen.org/documentary-writing-different-fiction-by-margot-mccuaig/#comment-20384 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:29:08 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12048#comment-20384 In reply to Trish Nicholson.

Thank you so much, it’s really interesting to know that you have a similar process and I think that is because you are a writer. I often find that other documentary makers – those who only make TV – are much less structured in the edit process and try and make their programme in the edit rather than on paper in the first instance. I think if they also wrote fiction they would work differently..

]]> By: Trish Nicholson http://booksbywomen.org/documentary-writing-different-fiction-by-margot-mccuaig/#comment-20357 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:49:24 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12048#comment-20357 Excellent post Margot, thank you. You capture perfectly how the two genres intertwine and separate – same craft aimed at the same effects but with specific material requiring different process. I write fiction and narrative non-fiction and find that the difference in process is mostly what goes on inside my head with planning, and decisions about selection and verification, rather than how words are expressed on the page.

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