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Real vs Fiction (in my stories)

There is a little of me in every story I write. Sometimes, I sprinkle a little of my personality around, hitting each character or I'll dump a list of things onto one character. And then there are stories with events that really happened. This blog post is about the real things that I've experienced or happened to someone I personally know. So, let's talk about the real vs fiction in my stories...





In the series The Fairytale Adventures.


My granddaughter inspired the main character, Maria, who happens to have a pacemaker. So did my granddaughter. In the story, Maria hugs a tree. That's real. Of course, my granddaughter was much younger than Maria when she hugged the tree.


In A Mother's Pain.


The MC's mother pushes her aside to reach one of the children. That happened to me in real life. And the story behind it is very similar. My mother crossed the line too often, and I felt like I couldn't do anything to stop it. I wasn't strong. I actually wrote A Mother's Pain to see what it would be like if our ending was different. The fact that the MC was an artist (painter) is fiction. I'm a writer, not a painter. The MC threw a sandwich away after her mother complained about it. I didn't do that, but I often thought about it when I was chewed out for it. So, that was fiction. However, I did get yelled at for eating Pringles that my mother left in the cabinet. She had "borrowed" them from a co-worker. How do you borrow food? That still puzzles me.


In the Peterson Estate series.


There was one scene where the mother acted like she didn't have a child. After he had died, she finally confessed to having one. Obviously, that's fiction. Even though my mother treated me badly, she never denied being my mother. She was the opposite--never letting me forget that.


Sprinkling a little truth into fiction keeps the stories interesting. It makes you wonder what's real and what's fictional whenever you read any story. Authors like Stephen King do this all the time. I learned that he does this with just about every story he writes, which I always admired. He inspired me to do a lot of things in my writing!



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