Verity

by Colleen Hoover

And that’s why I stay at home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.

I try to avoid projecting my own feelings onto my characters, but when I was writing Lowen’s character, I couldn’t help but transfer my feelings about my career onto her character. I see a lot of myself in her, especially with this quote. I feel very boring in real life, and I’m extremely awkward. I sometimes feel like people expect me to be one way in person, but then are disappointed to meet me and find out I’m not a bubbly, outgoing individual. Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it’s all in my head. But the feelings exist, and from talking to other writers, it exists in a lot of us.