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When fiction bleeds into autobiography

My novel keeps wanting to become a memoir but I am terrified of writing about real people who might read it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundary between invented truth and lived experience dissolves when the story demands honesty the writer fears to give.

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