Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising… and it’s magic and wonderful and strange.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.