Megan Abbott

Is this how you see it?

That was my...

question this is critical to the story i won't say more because spoilers i wonder if this is always the case or if there was ever a time that she wrote each sister's point of view just to understand them i read it twice to see how she does it and i still don't know so laura is also trying to reverse engineer your book yes that's amazing that's thank you so much laura that's so flattering because i you know i i did want that to be the case i never want to be too tricky

depending on the book, but most of my books, I'm not really playing a game.

I love reading those books, but I'm not really playing a game with the reader, but I really wanted to do the close third.

I did not think ever of going into either of the other sisters' head, but I really did want them to feel real and vivid and

So that's one reason why it wasn't first person, for instance, because close third gives you a little more wiggle room, you know, and you can almost sort of lose track of who's... It's interesting because I'm developing it for a TV show now.

And so you're not in one person's point of view in a TV show.

Harper's the protagonist.

It's not a superiority base.

Yes, yes.

But it is so interesting how easy it is for me to write the other...

Sisters, you know, to fall into their POV and perhaps because of the, of just what Laura is saying that it felt like you understood them.

And that's always, that's always what you're hoping for, you know, figuring out the POV is the big thing that, oh yeah.

so much of the early part of the book is making sure I'm in the right one.

And I spent a lot of time changing it, rewrite, you know, it is, it is a one of the unspoken, I think they don't talk about that enough in writing classes, but that is like the big decision you make early on and it affects everything.

I don't think I've ever realized that, but now that you're saying it like so true because it informs everything like, yes.

if the crime is the engine, this is the soul, like 100% because it's the eyes through which you see the world.

You know, Laura and I were talking about this because again, obsessed.

I think that a huge part of it too is that they're sisters.