There's something incredibly intimate about writing. Not just the steamy, sexy things, but the little things, the quiet things, characters sitting and thinking or having dinner with family or calling up a friend on the phone. To write something really meaningful -- not necessarily to the world at large, but to me as the writer -- I have to know who I'm writing, very deep down: I need to know where they come from, I need to know their family, their upbringing, their hopes, their dreams, their turn-ons and turn-offs and the things that get them out of bed in the morning and keep them awake at night. I need to know their hobbies, the secret t