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Hmm, no credit to Haruki Murakami, who wrote the memoir of the title you yanked “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”? Murakami credited Raymond Carver
by replwoacause 3y ago
Hmm, no credit to Haruki Murakami, who wrote the memoir of the title you yanked “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”?
Murakami credited Raymond Carver's collection of short stories called “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” for inspiring his title. Might be nice for you to include a small mention.
- leiysky 3y agoThanks for reminding, I will update the post later. By the way, the storytelling of Haruki Murakami influenced my a lot, I should have mentioned it when the title first occured to me.
- pvg 3y agoYou can of course do what you want in your own writing but the GP's suggestion that you need to 'credit' or explain every allusion is not good writing advice - it would mean not having allusions at all.
- replwoacause 3y agoI enjoyed the article and learned some things reading it. Re-reading my comment, it could have been worded better so I'm sorry about that. As I mentioned in another comment here, I'm not a writer, just an admirer of Murakami's, so if this suggestion contradicts what is common or best practice for authors I hope you'll ignore it.
- pvg 3y agoThings like that are for readers to enjoy when they notice them, as you did, and it's fun to share the noticing with other people. You can just write something along the lines of 'Enjoyed the piece, was your title a reference to X? X was inspired by Y!'. That way don't accidentally come across as a messageboard nitpicker but as the erudite reader that you are.
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- whateveracct 3y agoIt's pretty standard to not cite cute references like this. Nobody puts Dr Strangelove in their blog bibliography when they do a "How I stopped worrying and learned to love X" post.
- replwoacause 3y agoThis is a good point. Maybe I missed the mark here. I'm not a writer, just a reader/appreciator so if my advice is bad from a writer's perspective then I hope the author ignores it altogether.
- whateveracct 3y agoIt's fine either way tbh!
- bigbillheck 3y agoI think that being free to use, and expect your audience to get, basic references like this is just part of being in an educated society.
- replwoacause 3y agoIt’s not about the “expectation to get it”. Disagree if you like, that’s fine, but my opinion is that I’d give a nod if it were me.