“When you first start writing stories in the first person if the stories
are made so real that people believe them, the people reading them
nearly always think the stories really happened to you. That is natural
because while you were making them up you had to make them happen to the
person who was telling them. If you do this successfully enough, you
make the person who is reading them believe that the things happened to
him too. If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying
for, which is to make something that will
become a part of the reader’s experience and a part of his memory. There
must be things that he did not notice when he read the story or the
novel which, without his knowing it, enter into his memory and experience
so that they are a part of his life. This is not easy to do.”
~~ from A Moveable Feast (The Restored Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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