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When I started writing, I wrote about incidents that happened in my own life. And that is what prodded me to write regularly and continuously and kept my brain supplied with constant new material for writing.
I was speaking to a colleague yesterday and asked about this and he said, “All writing contains personal expressions of the writers, be it in a varying degree. Writers draw upon real-life experiences and behaviours of the people around them. All writing is personal.”
And I agree. All writing is snippets of authors’ lives, upon which they build and expand their storytelling world. Experience is timeless. You can mould important incidents, things that left an impact on you into another time. It is not necessary that you have to experience everything first-hand to understand how it must have happened. In the book “The Help”, Kathryn Stockett said that she modelled Skeeter’s maid Constantine on her own maid, Demetrie, for whom she had great affection until the year she died,1980. Stockett was only 16 at the time. The book is based in the 1960s, a time of great racial tension in America, therefore Stockett has no claim over the story as “her own”. In fact, she based Minny on her…
