Write with Special Sauce

 

Do you ever get stories “ripped from theheadlines”? How much do you rely on current events to fuel your stories?

 

We’ve allheard the familiar chestnuts: ‘Reality is stranger than Fiction’ and ‘Everystory has already been told,’ or a permutation on the latter, ‘Every book hasbeen rewritten.’

 

I thinkthe reason why readers see the same stories over and over again, and why agentsand publishers are reluctant to take on inventive stories or creative uses oflanguage is...