Goodreads asked Michael Varga:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Michael Varga Think about your biography. There are seeds in your own life story that you can use to transform a narrative. Rather than what may have happened in your actual life, let a character--who's based on you but is not you--experience a different outcome. You can sprinkle real life details into your scene to give it that sense of "someone actually lived through this." But you alter the outcome to give it that dramatic weight.

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