That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.
I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.
I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.
I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.
When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.
I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.
In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.
I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."
I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.
Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.
I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.
I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.
I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.
My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.
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