“Are fictional characters drawn from real life?” asks Stephen King, in On Writing, “on a one-to-one basis, you’d better not–unless you wanna get sued, or shot at on the way to the mailbox some fine morning.”
Many of what could have easily been among the most read stories of my miles fit into this category. I’ve begun writing a book about the Walk. It’s non-fiction, of course. I’m not sure how long it will take, and to share some of the less flattering stories while simultaneously protecting identities, I’m sure I’ll have to do at least some location and name changing along the way, lol.