This is for the long fiction piece I am writing. She must have a past, a childhood, the whole magilla. So now I go back and make up her past and she becomes someone I know, maybe someone I have mentioned in a short story but now I can fill her out, and set her in a different time and place.

I am very nervous about how my family will feel about this book. Maybe they will, as they have in the past, see themselves in it and take umbrage to my depiction. I have never portrayed my brother in anything I have written, but he sees himself often anyway and then he becomes so irate with me!