God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise- Ray Lamontagne
Love his voice
My freckles, whenever the sun comes out, so do they!
I have recurring characters, I don't use my name in my stories but there's an element of 'me' in most of them. I try to use situations that I've imagined happening. I think it's important to mix real life with pure imagination, for my stories at least.
I have no problem reading stories where the writer is the main character, but find invented characters often have more substance to them, you try to pad them out, give them characteristics, just make them more believable.