The Importance of Suffering and Trauma in Writing

Suffering and trauma are the main sources of inspiration for John Sutter. "I get the ideas for what I talk about basically by whatever it is I'm thinking about in what I'm dealing with my day to day job right now," he says. He's happy to go back and read things he had published several years ago, which was truly agonizing. 'It doesn't have to be fiction to be writing,' writer tells his listeners.