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There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.
Chelsea Cain / Novelist
Actual
Arc
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I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.
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Fewer
Thrillers
People Than Think
Assume
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I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
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Screwed Up
Sucker
Protagonist
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There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.
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Diets
Killing
People
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Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
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Complicated
Facts
Retarded
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Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
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Airport
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Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.
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Attention
People
Ugly
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Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.
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I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
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Early Childhood
Iowa
Commune
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I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
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Jordan
Twisted
Carol
Tony
Val
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I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
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Nancy
Amateur
Detective
Drew
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I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
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Grad
Grad School
Iowa
Washington
Eventually
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I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.
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Comic
Dc
Marvel
Surprised
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Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.
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Care
Moving
World
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You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.
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Drinking
Hands
Pregnant
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I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
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Blame
Hormones
Pregnant
Thriller
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I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.
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Nancy
Bodies
Drew
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I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
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Library
Reading Books
School
Books
Read
Desk
Rat
Walked
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No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.
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Vacation
Covered
Fabulous
Sunscreen
Visit
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As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
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Milk
Remember When
Disappeared
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I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.
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Hbo
Arrived
True Blood
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I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.
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Daughter
Finished
Asleep
Desk
Feat
Praised
Sufficiently
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I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.
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Portland
Decade
North
On And Off
Washed
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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.
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Planes
Shy
Assume
Board
Look I Am Will
Shoulder
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I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.
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Delicate
Nurturing
Good Women I Am
Flowers
Cultural
Expectation
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People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.
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Mountain
Portland
Quality Of Life
Life Love Space
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Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.
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Cry
Pillow
Skirts
Tips
Mini
Perfectly
Sew
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My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had a lot to learn, so like good liberal arts graduates, we signed up for a class.
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Graduates
Having A Baby
Liberal Arts
Worried
Liberal
Signed
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People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.
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Self Conscious
Shoulder
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Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.
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Blue
Waiting
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I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.
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Control Freak
Freak
Real Life
Surrender
Let Go
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Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.
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Running
Fun
Thinking
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When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
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Grad
Grad School
Iowa
Journalism
Program
Assume
City People
Master
Workshop
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Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
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Supportive
Throat
Advance
Nights
Clears
Copy
Latest
Reads
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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
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Architecture
Beach
Bus
Castles
Cities
Museums
Ruins
Sucker
Traveled
Love Great I Am
Tours
Central
Fair Amount
Markets
Visited
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I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.
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No Idea
Panic
Signing
Good I Am Me
Recall
Sets
Spell
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Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.
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Narrative
Pushy
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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.
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Dialogue
Setting
Adding
Layer
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Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...
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Running
Ideas
Serial Killer
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I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.
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Projects
Self Indulgent
Work Always Me
Work Me Fun
Scale
Awhile
Chose
Small Scale
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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Essays
Narrative
Fill
Normally
Struck
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I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.
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Following
Journey Always People
Bad Thing
Damaged
Fallout
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I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.
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Beauty
Care
Natural
Skip
Spectacular
Strikes
Wilderness
Woods
Again
Seen
Dead
Still
Fact
Off
Walk
Natural Beauty
Surrounded
Tug
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Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.
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Lap
Sitting
Toddler
Worst
Home Mind Me
Consists
Couch
Hammer
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You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.
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Pet
Give Me
Guilt
Sadness
Take Care
Plants
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I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.
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Daughter
Force
Husband
Love Work Myself
Watch
Nicest
More Than Anything
Outside
Sit
Treat
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There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.
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Beauty
Breathtaking
Danger
Died
Little Bit
Moss
Pacific
Sinister
Thread
Tree
Winter
Scale
Bit
Came
Fact
Just A Little Bit
Northwest
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