FACTS IN NON-FICTION

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I like to include hidden truths in my work. For instance, scenes based on things that really happened. Of my first novel, Blue Rubber Pool, I’ve said that were the right people gathered in the same room the entire story could be traced to the things that inspired it.

Take Mister Gunther, for example. SPOILER ALERT….

Mister Gunther is comes into Blue Rubber Pool in the second half—drawn from a bit if data I had that seemed needing purpose.

There’s more of this sort of thing in Pool and in my latest novel The Bird in Your Heart.

Blue Rubber Pool Facts in non-fiction Mister Gunther The Bird in Your Heart

Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.