Below, she discusses unexpectedly living through a friendship break-up after writing a novel about a friendship break-up. About two weeks after submitting the copyedits for my friendship break-up novel, I found myself suddenly experiencing one in real life. Not in an “I want you to read my mind,” sort of way, but because we’d been down this road before. I’d written a novel about something like this and, in the aftermath, I knew nothing about it at all. This may sound obvious, but I didn’t know that while working on the novel, at least not consciously.