He was pulling away, I could feel it, but it wasn’t devastating. It was like I had a small leak. I wasn’t flayed open; I had a ripped a few stitches. 

I was used to the heart-stabbing pain of heartache. Of feeling like my lungs were gone. Loss in extreme. In stark juxta...

One of my favorite cringe-inducing characters is Asa from Too Late, by Colleen Hoover. My goal wasn't to write someone like that, to that extreme, but I wanted that goosebumps, uncomfortable feeling with one of the characters in my story. To the point where you want to...