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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

I do find real life a bit overwhelming sometimes. I'm totally chaotic.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

My life needs editing.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.