To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
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