Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
I won't read novels while writing novels.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
