Jen Warner
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Caroline Kepnes:
What steps do you have to take to prepare to write a character like Joe's? What do you do so that you can think like such a character would?
Caroline Kepnes
Just letting loose, like crazy loose. The green pillow was a good example where I started writing that, and I'm like, this sounds insane and maybe embarrassing and out there and I'm blushing for everyone, Joe and Beck and my editors. But that's sometimes how you know you're getting somewhere new, where it's surprising you and making you uncomfortable. So I decide to turn off that inner Puritan we all have and that's across the board, like it also means I might write 30 pages one day and know that it's not right, I'm going in the wrong direction, but with this POV, you're always learning about the character and it was important for me to explore. And then cut. Also, it's just so exciting to imagine what it would be like to be sitting at this bookstore, ringing people up, going home, being free and being A MURDERER. I mean, can you imagine?
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Greta
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Caroline Kepnes:
can't wait to read Hidden Bodies! did you know already if it will be out in italy soon?
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