![]() You know when something bad is happening and you keep telling yourself, ‘This isn’t real.’ That was harder to write than the bloody stuff. Otherwise she would have spent the whole book crying. There had to be this moment where she just goes into shock at what’s happened to her parents so that she was emotionally, as well as physically, disassociated from the crash. ![]() Actually, after I finished the whole book I had to go back to the accident scene and write it more in depth, not the gory part but Mia’s reaction to it. It’s easier to write than deal with in real life. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset. I don’t know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. doctor! She helped me get those details right. You must not be the type who gets squeamish at the sight of blood. doctor, I guess you did some medical research as well. I had to do research to figure out what kind of music Mia would be playing at each stage of her development, and now I live in fear of actual cello players telling me how I got it all wrong. ![]() Not only do I not play the cello or any other instrument, but Mia arrived fully formed as a cellist in my imagination, and I was like, ‘A cellist? Really?’ I didn’t even like classical music, though I have gained an appreciation from having to learn about it in order to write this book. ![]()
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