You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.