The Importance of Intentional Reflection in Writing

I think part of it definitely started in the writing process. Writing is, you know, accidentally reflective because you'll write and you'll uncover it. And then I'm kind of like learning from my characters as, as I'm writing them into the stories. But at the same time, this is why I don't write like none of the kind of the family dynamic and even the, what happens with Lara's family in 1997. None of that is kind of representative of what my family went through at all. Did your parents read it? Yeah, they did. There is one character that everyone recognizes as my grandfather, my mother's father, who's a titrini man.