You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.