Dani asked David Wong:

Some lines in this story seem personal to you, does this bother you? That masses of people know intimate knowledge of your thoughts or feelings? Did you think about this when you wrote/writing your blog or books? Or is it an outlet for your darkest thoughts? Maybe I'm off base here but they say the best writing comes from the heart so I would be surprised if I'm wrong.

David Wong That's part of the job, when you're writing, you're opening a vein. You're selling access to that part of yourself. Even writers who think they're just doing paint-by-numbers genre stuff, those stories still have to have heart and the heart has to come by examining your own pain and sharing it with a stranger to see if maybe they feel the same way. Go rent, say, RoboCop and look at the themes of alienation, of feeling ostracized from modern society, of feeling like technology has robbed you of your humanity. And that's in a movie called ROBOCOP.

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