Word: eps
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...EP: None are about one specific experience of mine, but all are informed by my experiences. None of the characters are me or people I know, but they all have parts of them...
...EP: First I think of the situation I want the story to show, then I pinpoint who the characters will be. Probably five of the stories will be in the third person, a little more than half. Generally if a main character is very distant from me and my experience, I will write him or her in the third person. I should probably deviate from this at some point...
...EP: I was inspired by some John Updike stories. One in particular inspired me to write about older people, “Playing with Dynamite.” For the most part before that I had written about younger people. I like George Saunders a lot—how he addresses the absurdity of suburban living—but I don’t think I write like him. I’ve also been inspired by Barry Hannah, Flannery O’Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason and many others. Basically everything I read influences the way I think about...
...EP: I am writing a series of about eight short stories. They all take place in the same relatively small suburban town, each at a different period in time within about a 50-year range. Some of the characters appear in multiple stories at different ages and life stages. The protagonist or narrator of one story sometimes appears in another story as a minor character, or as a character important to the plot but not as the central figure. There will be a story about a ghost. I wouldn’t say that the work has a theme, they...
...EP: Yes. The town is not unlike where I grew up in Maryland. But it has no name...