Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 10.0 [Focus.]

“Ultimately all you have are your experiences, and it's hard to write about that because if you do—”

“—everyone will know.”

“Exactly.” He took a long drag on his cigarette.

We sat side by side in silence for a full minute before I got the courage to speak up. “I used to write characters that were just thinly veiled versions of people I wanted to be. They had all the qualities I wished I had.”

“Fight Club syndrome.”

I turned to look at him.

“You know, ‘I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I do what I want to do’.”

I looked at the sidewalk between my feet and smiled. “Yeah, that was pretty much it.
“The problem was they were so perfect that they were never in peril.”