![]() ![]() The experience of knowing him-and losing him-was life-changing. I witnessed up-close the highs and lows, the Awake and the Asleep, and I saw his daily struggle with the world and with himself. Years ago, I knew and loved a boy, and that boy was bipolar. Write it because you can’t imagine writing anything else.” He told me, “Kid, whatever you write next, write it with all your heart. The last time I saw him, I was nearing the end of a series of books I’d begun writing in 2008 and was feeling depleted and ready-creatively- for something new and different. I wrote All the Bright Places the summer of 2013, following the death of my literary agent of fifteen years. ![]() The answer is that I did cry while writing it, but I also knew it was okay to cry because that meant I was accessing the emotion I needed in order to write the story. ![]() Recently a young writer asked me, “How did you write All the Bright Places without crying over it?” ![]()
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