Anonymous asked: I'm going to ask a really lame question and I hope you forgive me and answer it anyway, but I remember reading a quote once about getting an emotion down while writing, and how a reader will only cry if the writer has cried. So I'm wondering if you've ever cried while writing something - and if you cried while writing Sleepwalking in particular because at the end when Hermione finds Draco waiting for her, I always end up sobbing until my eyes look like pillows.

Not lame at all! Great question.

I cry plenty in general (a recent development, I assure you), but during writing? Yes.  Especially if I’m writing about something really personal, like my family.

I don’t remember crying while I was writing Sleepwalking (but I did cry while writing The Universe is a Great and Beautiful Thing!) BUT I was really emotional about it. In a cerebral way though, if that makes any sense.  Nothing about that fic was planned.  I just sat down and started writing and that’s what came out of me… and it was so depressing, and sad.  But still, as always, hopeful. 

I do love the ending though, with the double futon and all.  And I love that she lays down with him.  It’s so bittersweet.  The truth is, every time I read something that I’ve written — the most intense, especially — I always feel like somebody else wrote it.  I can never trace my thought process, and nothing seems familiar to me.  Which is why I always end up re-reading what I write a billion times.  It’s like writing amnesia! 

But thank you for your question/compliment!