![]() Nearly every character in Narcissus Nobody started out as a facsimile of someone I met who made an impression on me or a combination of individuals I know. I’m not trying to paint a picture of reality, but rather to melt reality down into a sort of clay which I can then use to create something new. Gina Yates: I’m not shy about the fact that all my fiction is inspired by my real life to some extent, but that’s not to say it is autobiographical. ![]() Where do you draw inspiration for characters, and what is your process for writing them into the world and figuring out how they would act toward one another? Three Rooms Press: Narcissus Nobody is filled with people all with unique motivations, quirks, and charms. check out a playlist to go with the book here! ![]() Three Rooms Press spoke with author Gina Yates, youngest daughter of celebrated author Richard Yates, about writing characters steeped in their own mythologies, music as the most perfect artform, and her father’s influence on her writing. Narcissus Nobody is the charmingly humorous, satirical tale of a woman struggling to find her own place in the world when constantly influenced more than she’d like to admit by those around her -particularly the words of disgraced self-help author Brooks Nixon.
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