18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
Writing Excuses
The Importance of Memories in Fiction
The foods that I love to eat and the smells associated with those foods, these are things that bring characters to life. Fiction gives you an opportunity to number one, find out what things you're carrying. Some of them are issues that you're working through for a specific period of time in your life and then set down. And there's something really amazing and beautiful in that. But it also can be difficult to know how to catch up to the issues that are now the things that you're carrying."
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