My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).
Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.
Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.
I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.
My stories are often a little mysterious.
Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
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