The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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.
I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
The telling of stories creates the real world.