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Fiction writing requires a balance of storytelling, personal experience, and realistic portrayals of characters’ emotions and actions. It is a challenge to avoid tipping too far in one direction, especially when the author’s personal experiences can weigh so heavily.

David Vann is an author that has successfully accomplished a balance in telling stories from a depth that can only be reached through personal experience, but without turning fiction into a thinly disguised memoir. Not that writing a memoir is negative, by any means.

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Storytelling is all about sharing the reality of a story and its characters - complete with their motivations, reactions, and mistakes. Crafting those personalities realistically can be quite the task, according to New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. “I try to know my characters from the time they were born, and know what motivates them.

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