Moving Beyond Autobiography

Writers tend to start out avoiding autobiography. When they run out of obligatory stories, and have to move beyond their own experience, that's when the real work begins. A writer named peter beagle said you had to make the character your own. He made this filippino pharmacis a woman first, so he made her a doctor. And finally, he moved her from watsonville to berkeley,. at which point you had all the essential features of this philippino pharmacis, but it was now in his character.

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