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Why I would not accept co-writing?

When I was 16, I started to write in my notebook. My friend shared my passion so she joined me to write together. The story was about relationships, school days, jealousy and adulting. We were writing together few years. After we wrote four books together, we parted ways. These books were never published. Old notebooks collected dust in the bottom of the drawer. One day I was cleaning my closet and found the manuscript with two different handwriting styles. Yellow pages, letters written with a pencil. It was like a ghost visited me. Looking like a tourist who visited a cave, I felt strange.  I lived in the age without technology. I was born in the time without cell phones and Internet. Co-writing was the way of spending time, because I was not skilled in sport games. I was not socialized.  Comparing these two styles of writing, I see mine was very different. One of my peers asked me then:"Why don't you write alone?" Many years after I found an article in Internet portal, ...

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 fas...