For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.
I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
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