It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
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I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.
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