How to write a book based on real events?

Some of my books are based on my real experiences. "I will kill you in my dream", "The guy from another league", "Seduced by illusions" and "The Seller of Sins" are inspired by real events.

Those were times when I felt betrayed and down. I was alone with my keyboard. Writing about this traumas helped me to recover.

I was using some real elements to bring message to readers how to avoid similar experiences. I made a structure to create a plot and not hurt anyone.

These elements were:

Names of characters are changed. Ex boyfriends, ex friends are described but names are fictional.

Names of places are changed.

Actions are described with different details, adjusted to genre.

Villains have characteristics of people I don't like in real life.

There is a sentence which annoyed me. "Are you writing about me?" Some random people asked me that like they are important to me. They were not.

Shaping my characters, I described people who fascinated me on negative or positive ways. I took their energy and their actions to form the plot.

The purpose of books based on real events is to talk about different culture and tradition. It is not the same to write books about people in Great Britain and comparing this to Croatia. Habits and tradition is very different.

Making these stories, I felt like something is happening again, that is not pleasant, but this time I have a power to control it. Some events did not end like I wished for, but my story got a different message.

After many years passed, these events and people are not important anymore. Some are dead, some are forgotten.

If you are author, you will understand why trauma is an element of story. What lived inside of you is now in the story and you can punish it, even after a long time.

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