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Age: 100
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City: DENVER
State: Colorado
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/18/2008

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Ruzlyn (2)
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Monday, September 08, 2008 
One of the things at the heart of writing a good story is alienation of your character--we all want to be accepted. Lots of things can cause alienation, but one thing comes into high relief today is how false accusations can contribute to it.

Anyone can post to this subject; poets, nonficiton writers, fiction writers, essayists, what have you. Try your hand at describing how a person who has been falsely accused of something feels alienated and how he or she might react.

Another side of this is to explore how someone who is guilty tries to imitate the behavior of someone who has been falsely accused--the result can be more telling than a lie detector. Perhaps you could write a scene like this and show how someone fails at being convinving.

In any event, it will require good powers of observation of yourself or others to get this one on paper (or screen). The gauntlet has been thrown down! Let the writing and posting begin. :-)
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Ruzlyn

 
Ok I'll come back . Will wait for others post. :-) Looks challenging anyway :-)
 
Posted by Ruzlyn on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 2:51 AM
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Master Last Liner

 
Hey mom, this one looks really hard. I request an example.
 
Posted by Master Last Liner on Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 5:41 AM
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Coffeehouse for Writers

 
Well, I was thinking about this due to a news item in Denver. Some guy had spent years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, and DNA evidence has exonerated him. He's still in the news trying to get the original prosecutor tossed off the new case that will be coming up (if they ever find a new suspect).

When he left prison he had nothing left, and it's interesting to speculate about how others think about him--or at least how he suspects they do. I imagined him applying for a job and being turned down time and time again just from mistrust. So when he applies for jobs, he may begin to expect rejection and begin overacting the part of the innocent.

How paranoid will it make him? Will he leave Colorado and change his name, and will that make him feel even more alienated? Would feelings of alienation in his case actually bring him a little peace?

So we have to know how the innocent act to do this, and how someone might overact the part. We have to observe quite a lot for this one.
 
Posted by Coffeehouse for Writers on Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 4:24 PM
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