That is all you need to know—say it, say what happened that seemed worth the telling, or that you don’t want to forget. Stories are when something happened that you didn’t expect, that lead to some deep internal change in yourself or the main character. Tell it. Something happened, both to and inside a person, that we need you to help us see, and if you believe it wasn’t old and boring, I want to hear it. And everything that has happened to you belongs to you. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
