Bart — Born On A London Bus

Do you create your characters before an event, or after?

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I woke early having thoughts that reach backward, to some event that changed who I am, and then, lying there, I let fiction take over.

I’ve never thought of myself as a storyteller, certainly not a writer, a man who studied, learned grammar, or a man who can confidently spell words of more than…