As in The Bubba Stories , it really was in college. It was through a couple of very good teachers who brought this home to me by giving me the right things to read. It was when I started reading Eudora Welty that I began to understand that I should write things that seemed more real. But the feelings are universal. They are, but the feelings have to start somewhere.
All good writing is regionalized.
The reader has to be able to see, touch, and feel the story. We have to create a real world for the story. We have to use the tales that are accurate. The second story, Blue Wedding , is the story that disturbed me. It could, in many ways, sound funny, but it was disturbing.