From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 6/6/2014 7:10 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > Is storytelling a talent one is born with, or is it a skill that can be   
   > developed?   
      
   All I can tell you is that I am born with it.   
      
   >   
   > Aside from autobiography, where do the stories come from? Are they   
   > imagined up out of thin air? Are they transformations of stories one has   
   > lived himself? Other?   
      
   There is a reason why the Greeks invented the Muses. Your  muse may or   
   may not be a construct, but she is a useful person to have around. She   
   generates all these attack novels and whack ideas. She is the one that   
   forces you to write that bodice ripper, when your contract calls for   
   space opera. She is the one who keeps you up until 2 am at a hot keyboard.   
      
   So: the stories come from the Muse. I just write them down. That they   
   filter through me and my experience is true but not important. The   
   inspiration is divine.   
      
   Brenda   
      
      
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