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Writing is a communication.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.