I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.Wally Lamb
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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