Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.