Is it to be a story you make up, then? It is always good to base your fiction on some facts.. all good writers do it. They base their fiction on a real story from their lives, at least a little. For example, Stephen King writes about Maine, because he knows Maine.
I happen to have been adopted, and I met my biological mom when I was 25... so I could do this easily! But I wonder if you can imagine a story in which someone grew up without a Mom. Stephen King advises us to think of a "What if" situation in order to come up wit good stories. What is a boy was a foster child because society thought his mom was dead, but actually she just faked her death and moved to another country because she could not handle motherhood. And then she tries to find you when she is full of regret... and she expects you to feel angry, but you are not angry at all. Perhaps you have become a modern-day stoic, and you are not angry, but you have almost no emotion at all. And your mother is a martial artist, and the two of you open a resturaunt that is routinely harassed by neighborhood thugs...
Kevin, EssayForum.com