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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'