Porthole

I am as creative as reality is creative

30DBC: How much of your own life or the lives of people you know do you put into your writing? Do you mine your past for inspiration, or do you create wholly new places and characters?

Depends...

Many of my poems are for people or based on people. Some mildly fictionalized...

The Zmitri poems are for my friend Gary. The idea is two individuals connected throughout time and the cosmos. Not very radical but most poets don't write about that. And not unique. When I watched "My Roommate is a Fairy Fox" (Chinese) I was gobsmacked on how they handled two characters still attached after 1,000 years. The theme of loyalty and forever being thankful uplifted me. It makes me want to edit my Zmitri poems and share them.

My chapbook This and Every November is a collection of 22 poems written for specific individuals.

And I would be remiss if I didn't mention my Latter-Day-Vampire Bawang. S/he is totally fiction... or so I thought... until I met Wesley/Catherine on a bus out of Boise.

IMHO, regardless whether characters (or places) are fictional they will always resemble someone or some place.

The trick is making the reader believe they are real.

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