On writing inspiration
I am trying to imagine the model for the wife of the main male character in my current work–in-progress on U.S. politics.
It may be a high school crush who eventually broke up with me with a political ambition and became a senior U.S. Congressional staffer for a while, and we had a brief affectionate but awkward talk outside the committee room while we were in our 30s, and I was a reporter who did not know she would be there.
She was a pretty and voluptuous blonde, but I was wild as a teenager. And she may have thought me a reputation risk for her.