This one of those things were there isn’t really one “right” answer. How does one have the “right” to tell another’s story. Do you have to be connected to the person or people of that story? It would be totally normal if I wrote a novel about my grandpa’s childhood. We’re connected by blood. But would it be okay for me to write a story about someone not related to me and from a different culture and background from me? I feel like I would receive some backlash for this. It almost feels like theft, like I’m taking a peoples story. On the otherhand, if I wrote a book about Alexander the Great I feel like it would be fine regarldess of the fact that we have no connection. I don’t know, it’s weird and complicated.