Tarah DeWitt

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And I think that

That translates in and transfers in a lot of new ways when you have survivor's guilt.

She had guilt when her friend was sick.

So there's, I mean, there was just a lot to explore there.

And that's the kind of stuff that always interests me.

I think for me, that story came from some personal experience in that it feels like

better to actively grieve and to like open yourself up to the memories when they happen and you never know what silly little thing is going to trigger a memory and so you know I try to write like they can be looking at the stars and group of other teenagers and it'll bring back a memory of them being teenagers I think that that brings about a lot more genuine emotion and again

I think that that kind of pain can hold hands with joy because you got to have that memory with them and live that in the first place.

So even though it's painful now, knowing that they're not here, you get to sort of live in that in between.

So for me, I think that just kind of mimics personal experience.

Like the most devastating moments of my life had something funny that happened the same day.

That's kind of where I like my books to live and that sort of rhythm that mimics reality, I guess.

Oh, I'm sure that they have their own drama.

I mean, life is sometimes it feels like it's kinder to some people than it is to others.

But I love this idea that like, I mean, I think you and I have talked about it a little bit.

I don't want to be happy all the time.

So I'm okay with my characters not being happy all the time.

Because when they've been through pain, and they've been through hard times, and I've

been able to take them through it on the page I am confident that they get to go on and do it off the page and I know that they're all pretend but to me the happily ever after feels real to me because I know that happily ever after is going to include pain it's going to include you know it's going to include like shit not going their way sometimes but I know that

They've gotten through it before and I believe that they'll get through it in the future too.

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