They would tell stories about just awful things that happened to them. Humor is absolutely necessary to keep going…So many of the people in my family and my community were wonderful storytellers.On readers connecting despite the novel No One is Coming to Save Us portraying an African American experience in “INTERVIEWS: Stephanie Powell Watts” in BookPage (April 2017).As a reader, you know the gut of it and say, ‘I get this,’ and I’ve felt like that, too. This is about a particular time and place, but I think there are so many other resonances here to other kinds of experiences. But I feel strongly that this kind of experience is not so different from other people’s experiences. Absolutely has the particularity of African-American experience. On creating realistic dialogue in “Stephanie Powell Watts: How I Write” in The Writer (2018 Sep 5).Another thing is to never let people directly answer each other’s questions if you’re trying to create tension. They’re talking, but not saying the right things. Also, when two characters are in a space that’s emotionally raw, they can’t always articulate everything. Most people don’t go on and on for sentences in real life. Don’t say too much, because then it gets to a place where it’s not natural.
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