I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
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It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.
At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.
Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.
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