To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
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