By: Chris Devlin

Chris Devlin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:58:55 +0000

Ooh, you’re touching on something that’s very present for me as I prepare to e-publish a novel, a “semi-autobiographical” novel. I’m very hesitant about it, even though most of my writer friends tell me not to be, that mining your childhood for fiction is a common happening for writers, even a rite of passage. But I don’t think my ambivalence is going to stop me, because the novel is written and it’s done and it will be even if I never publish it. I don’t know what’s right or wrong about it, but I do know it’s time to tell my story, that story. I’ll have to see if the fall-out makes me regret it. I understand your squirmy feelings, though–it’s a very murky area for writers.
Great post, thanks.

By: Em

Em — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:40:29 +0000

My best friend and I both write and we cheerfully steal bits of people we know – even from each other.

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