![]() I also wanted to write a story using characters at mid-life because it’s something I haven’t done (with the exception of The Notebook, in which they’re elderly, not middle-aged). If I don’t have the “conflict,” I don’t have the story, and for the life of me, I couldn’t come up with something new to keep the characters apart. Thus, it gets progressively harder and harder to write new novels, but in the end, it’s what makes a story memorable. In all love stories, there has to be an element that keeps the characters apart in order to create drama, and throughout the course of my career, I’ve tried never to use the same element twice. ![]() I suppose I’d been thinking about it since I was working on The Rescue, but as much as I tried, the pieces just didn’t seem to come together. It had been in my mind for some time to write another short love story, a story that harkens back to the poignant emotional intensity of The Notebook. ![]()
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