#Wiki allison raskin series#

Allison was a little but of an influence toward, “hey maybe this isn’t so great.” And that influence has carried on to today. When we did meet I was very similar to Gen - I was a mess and hooking up with inappropriate people and way more party-heavy. These girls are 22, and Allison and I didn’t meet until Allison was 24 and I was 25. But when you’re younger, you need those connections to bounce things off someone.ĭunn: It’s definitely similar to how our friendship was. As I’ve grown older, I can experience something and not immediately have to call another person and tell them about it. Raskin: Ava’s character is very heavily dependent on Gen in a way that I, at 30 years old, am not. Were there elements you felt strongly about including in the book?ĭunn: The STI storyline is something we really wanted to focus on.ĭunn: I was a journalist, mostly in high school, and I had the experience of not having a lot of queer community around. It makes it more intimate… It gives them room to be more flawed - in a private conversation with your friend, you’re going to be a little darker and a little shittier than if you were saying something publicly.

#Wiki allison raskin series#

Why write the book as a series of messages?ĭunn: I think part of it is you’re hearing directly from them so they’re unreliable narrators. We maybe should have outlined, but we didn’t!

A lot of it was doing things in the moment that made us laugh. For a lot of the book we had a Google doc open and both typed in it.ĭunn: We knew some of the plot points we wanted to hit. We didn’t divide it up by character or anything. Raskin: It’s more standard than you might think. What was your writing process for the book? We jumped ahead to a milestone where friendships can either fade away or get stronger. Raskin: We had a great time with I Hate Everyone but You, and to us it felt like the story of those characters wasn’t over because it was the story of their friendship and their friendship wasn’t over.