[Madhu, After Dark] Marina! *I love your name*
[Marina Vega, Featured Author] Thank you! Marina is perfect. It's actually my real name. I did mess around with the idea of using a character name for myself in my story, and for the first couple weeks that's exactly what I did, it was Marcy. It definitely made it easier to initially post like that and kind of get things moving, but eventually I felt like it took away from the fact that this is Non Fiction. It's real, when you're reading something like that, a memoir, and the main character's name isn't even real it makes you question things. Writing memoirs is a very intimate thing between the writer and the reader, it's like a secret between strangers, and I feel like the only way for it to work is to be completely open, making whoever is on the other end feel like they know you personally, and this is so close to me, I didn't want to jeopardize that trust.
[M] That happened to me too. I started out with a totally weird name, but eventually put up my real name here. So, I feel ya!
Could you tell us a bit more about your book, How To Be A Horrible Person?[Marina] Of course, How To Be A Horrible Person is my story around High School. It's personal like a diary, but it's told as if I'm telling a friend what happened.
On a base level it's the story of the friends that were my family, quite literally, and the boy that I gave my virginity too. Who ended up sleeping with one of those best friends. A good little teen love gone wrong. but on a deeper level, because let's be honest there has to be a deeper meaning lol I mean it's a good story on its own, you truly can't make up that good of drama, but at the end of the day what do you get out of it besides my past story?
that's really important to me because when it comes to other people (I'm not an asshole or anything) but I usually don't care when it comes to whining or past drama. I think that's ok though I think a lot of people are like that too and I think that that's why a lot of people have a hard time writing memoir because you want to be real and express emotion but without seeming like you're venting
so to me it's really important that people get something out of it too and I think they do, because it's also in a way a lot about everyone's first time, falling in love and learning to trust people and to be vulnerable at that age when you are not quite an adult but also not a kid, and everything hurts but you just have to keep trying to not let it suck your soul or your innocence away and change you too much. A little is ok, just not too much
it's about learning to be open to all of that love and firsts with an understanding that there are bad things that happen, and that there are people that don't always have your best interest at heart, but not letting those experiences make you a horrible person at the end of the day.I like writing in little tidbits of info I picked up and had wished I had learned before too, for example early on I described what it was like having a guy go down on me for the first time and how terrifying it was as a girl having not seen what my own vagina looked like, then having this guy. this guy I liked with his face down there. I later learned, I mean i guess girls are suppose to put a hand mirror down there to check it out? get familiar with your business. I had no idea. I truly hope
someone reads that and it saves them a lot of embarrassment, and wonder,because they can confidently say they are familiar with all of their own body. I like to think in that way I am passing on a little bit of girl wisdom, I didn't have. I know how hard it is being a girl and having no one to rely upon for woman advice besides other girls your own age. Which BTW is not a awesome resource on its own, because i mean they also don't know lol. The people that have read How To Be A Horrible Person are also really great at commenting and sharing their own personal story's in the comments section also, so I'm hoping that means that people can relate and it helps in someway, even if it's just to laugh at the stuff that makes us wanna cry, because I think that sometimes we need to remember to do that too.
Also feel free to let me know if there are any restrictions in my speech I need to be aware of! I totally should have asked you before we started, but I assumed since my book is mature and this is how I talk in the book, like very conversational, that it would be ok to use profanity and say vagina whenever I please, I will try to key it down if you need me too though, no worries.

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