![]() ![]() Give the basic facts of what happened, don’t delve too much into the victimization of it, the emotion of it. Rather than saying, “This terrible thing happened, oh my God I cried all day,” I wanted to do it more reportorial. But what I wanted to do in the writing was not to lean into the “Oh, poor me” narrative. There were times when it just got really, really hard. I kept a lot of things sequestered in different parts of my brain and was now having for the first time to open those boxes up and let them touch each other - synthesizing all that into a narrative. ![]() The number-one rule is the boxes cannot touch each other. Guys, in particular - we’re really good at putting bad stuff into boxes in our heads. Did you have second thoughts along the way? Did you feel like this was something you couldn’t put to paper? In terms of that detective-story writing element, I imagine it was quite a painful process for you. ![]()
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