A funny thing happened when I was writing Rumble Fish. The book I was writing changed into a different book. It had already changed a couple of times: first it was a short story; then it was a novel told from Steve’s point of view (which was too easy). I decided to use Rusty-James as a narrator, a very hard choice, and had to stay in the character of a very simple person and tell a very complex story.
At the time, I was reading a bit of mythology, wondering about the need humanity has for mythology. I thought I was using myths to write a story. Turned out that I used a story to write a myth.
Author’s Note Rumble Fish (August 2013)
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