I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
I'd like to give divorce a good name.
Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.