My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
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No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
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