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18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
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How to Write a Story About John Cleaver
When you're looking at stuff from your life, when you're mining it, you don't have to say this is a thing that is happening in my life and then put it in as a major plot point. It can just be something that you're holding in your head and will inflect it or it can be showing up in small details. And with that first draft of Next of Ken, I had to tone it back and say, okay, wait a minute, this needs to be a story about John Cleaver, not a journaling entry about Dan Wells.
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