#WordWeavers 2403.01 — Introduce yourself as if you were a character in your story. What would your role be?
Can my story be autobiographical?
My first recollection was looking up at a dashboard in a car. It was green, made of metal. My dad was driving, but I don't think there were seatbelts.
I don't remember much from those days because I acquired language late, and then it was French because Mom sent me to a Montessori. I don't remember French, so I don't remember much. Autism runs in the family, though I wasn't as bad as Uncle who stayed home all day building houses with cardboard and tape.
My specialness would account for other factors when I grew up, and, oddly, lead me to becoming an author. I think I had little native understanding of people's behavior, less of their expressions. It led me to intensely studying them, learning to predict what they'd do as if my life depended on it.
It did. If I didn't get it right, bad things happened. Don't remember specifically what, but I'm sure of this. Not understanding the language, nor the people, made it hard to remember more than images.
My next recollections come from when I was 7 or 8. It was night and I was home alone, no lights on. Batman was on primetime (/POW! Zowie! Holy Guacamole!/). By the flickering light of the the TV, Chef Boyardee raviolis heated in the pot and smelled really good...
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#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 7 Nbr 3 — How much of your worlds are invented versus real? Give examples.
I taking this as meaning places in my stories being set in the real world versus invented. Most every setting in my stories are invented. Spaceship interiors and alien worlds do not exist. Real life settings would require me to convince the people who actually live there that it's real; I'm pretty sure I'd fail. That said, I do short cut describing places by basing them I'm places I've visited, using real maps to define how truly crazy cities can be, combined memories of places I've visited. I stayed in underdeveloped counties, lived in a few interesting places like Bali, and explored odd places in cities in North America and Europe. My worlds are not only invented, but also pastiche of places in the real world.
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