I personally find telling the truth is the best when I write.
However then, what do you want to emphasize in what you are saying? What points do you want to make?
Or do you want to just bring someone into your experience.
Here's a true story. It's June 1958 and I'm 10 years old laying on the lawn in my front yard looking up at the clouds. I'm totally grateful that school is over for the year but also worried about getting bored because sometimes friends aren't always available and being alone since I'm an only child with parents or my grandmother is a little much sometimes. I'm in Glendale, California and if I'm 10 I just finished the 4th Grade at Horace Mann Grade School. My teacher at the beginning of the year was Mrs. Krell who got pregnant and had to be replaced by another teacher around Christmas time. Mrs. Krell was my most amazing grade school teacher likely because she was so enthusiastic and pregnant and happily married and happy to have a child. But, I wonder if she really missed us once she had her baby and maybe had trouble adjusting to being a mother. After all, she was only about 24 years old I think. MRs. Krell used to read my writings and recognized me as a good writer when I was 9 at the beginning of the fall of 1957 when I started 4th grade.
Anyway, I'm 10 years old and reading Robert Heinlein who is a science fiction author. Before I read Heinlein I read books about Freddy the pig. Here are some of these: His style always reminded me a little of Hugh Lofting in a way except I think Walter R. Brooks was an American not British like Hugh lofting who wrote the "Dr. Dolittle Series". I couldn't get the print to work after I put the books about Freddy the Pig so I decided to just keep writing above the links. Freddy the Pig was always funny to me simply because my name was Fred and my parents called me Freddie because my Dad's name was also Fred. So, to me, the name was a laugh in itself but also Freddy was very capable and always had ideas like me too. He was always inventive in a scientific sort of way which matched the way I thought too. I was always very logical too which eventually led to becoming methodical through my father teaching me to be an electrician summers from age 12 to age 17 and then I worked as an electrician for awhile at around age 21 when I burned out from computer programming at that point.
My favorite book he ever wrote was "Stranger in a Strange Land" but I don't think that came out until 1969 when I was 21 which was likely the perfect time to read that one. So, at age 10 I was reading things like "Starship Troopers", Citizen of the Galaxy, The Puppet masters, and likely then "Have Space Suit Will Travel" which was a play on words of the TV show "Have Gun Will Travel" which was a cowboy hit man series at the time popular on TV that I always watched. But still my very favorite of all his books was "Stranger in a Strange Land". But, like I said before I didn't read that until at least 1969 because I don't think it came out until at least then when I was already at least 21.
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Freddy the Magician (1947) is the 14th book in the humorous children's series Freddy the Pig .... Mr. Brooks, a capital plot-maker has the skill and humor of Dr. Dolittle's creator without Hugh Lofting'ssometimes disconcerting biases.
Sep 8, 2018 - Gub Gub appears to be Hugh Lofting's (writer of Dr. Dolittle) character who is also a pig? I think. And then Freddy the Pig is by Walter R. Brooks ...
When Walter R. Brooks published his first Freddy the Pig book in 1927, To and ... Freddy would subsequently appear in a series of adventures over the years, ...
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