I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.
I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
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