You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.