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How do you guys feel about writting something based in your own family history? I'm writing a book with a plot based on something that happened with my uncle, I'll obviously change the names, but it still makes me feel kind of awful about the whole thing.

>> No.16516954

>>16516951
Why?

>> No.16516961

>>16516951
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/07/08/my-life-and-hard-times-i-the-night-the-bed-fell
Read this story, it's great

>> No.16516967

>>16516954
Basically, 30 something years ago, my drunk uncle shot his brother in the back, making him a cripple, then he ran away and basically disappeared. His brother became confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life and commited suicide some 20 years later. It's something not really spoken in my family, but me writing about it feels weird.

>> No.16516980

>>16516951
That's what that one Steinbeck book is about.

>> No.16516997

>>16516951
My family is based, I write about the heroic exploits and immense strength of my ancestors who were superior to everyone alive today

>> No.16517251
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>>16516951
Many authors did the same. View it as an inspiration at least and a veiled documentation at best.

>> No.16517263

>>16516967
Jesus christ that's crazy.

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>>16516951
If there's going to be a novel about my family, it's going to be about me. None of my family has gone through anything like this and I hope to God they never will.

>> No.16517277

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz