It’s also interesting to me that the thing I liked most about writing Most Likely is the thing I hated most: every choice was mine.
And that has happened to me many, many times. On the other side of that coin, if you do write yourself into a corner, you have a group of other writers to help you get you out of it. It’s funny-the thing I like most about writing for TV is the thing I hate most! I love that it’s collaborative, and I hate that sometimes you’re not able to write exactly what you want. Does writing in each medium present very different challenges? You’ve created numerous teenage characters for television, and now for the page. They all have their wonderful strengths and weaknesses, and I loved the idea that each has equal possibility-and the idea of readers not rooting for just one of them. I firmly believe that we become who we are because of our friends.Īnd I didn’t want to reveal which of the characters becomes president because I wanted readers to realize that any one of the four could be elected president. And that made me realize-and I can easily get emotional saying this-that whoever our first female president is, we will owe a huge debt of gratitude to her friends, who will have shaped her to be who she is. As we ran for miles and miles, talking and talking, my friends pushed me further and further, and helped me become the best version of myself while we trained.Īt the same time, I was reading Hillary Clinton’s What Happened, and I was surprised to learn that she was a Republican when she started college, and the women friends she met at Wellesley pushed her to think further and deeper-and to grow. At that time, I was training to run a marathon with a friend, and we pulled in another friend to train with us. When that didn’t happen, I started thinking about who that first woman elected would be. I was so disillusioned by the results of the 2016 election, as were many of us who thought that Hillary Clinton would become our first woman president. I was inspired to write the novel by several events colliding into one. What inspired this high-stakes plot-and your decision to keep the candidate’s identity hidden until story’s end? There is a great deal hanging in the balance throughout Most Likely, since readers know that one of the four protagonists will be elected the first woman president of the U.S., but don’t know who it will be.
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