List the top five ideas/concepts/etc you keep in mind while writing the character that you believe are essential to accurately depicting them.1. She's going to grow up to be Angela Freakin' Petrelli. Seriously--this is one I have to keep that in mind a lot, because she's got the seeds of that in her--she can scheme, she can manipulate, and she's ( Read more... )

You Are Fear


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The last thing Angela wanted to do was go out in the snow and get wet and cold putting together some snowman that would be destroyed by the neighborhood boys within a week, but Alice pleaded, and, as always, Angela gave in.

It was, by far, the most undignified she ever saw him, but when Angela childishly insisted that the first proper snowfall required the making of snow angels, Adam only sighed once before complying, and she was pretty sure she fell in love then and there.

It might have been corny, but there was something magical about driving through the neighborhood on a snowy night, looking at the lights everyone had strung on their houses, and even if she rolled her eyes as she slid in the backseat, Angela couldn't hide her smile of anticipation from her parents' knowing gazes.

But I am willing to wait. The right guy is out there somewhere.

You Have an Idealistic Heart


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Angela's mother had bought them all fancy coordinated stockings the year Alice was born, but when Alice and Angela spent a month in Sunday School pasting sequins in the shape of holly and trees on felt ones, she tossed the old ones in the attic and proudly hung the ones the girls had made each Christmas after.

It's hanging everywhere, but Angela doesn't let herself hope much, because what are the odds that the right person would catch her--or be caught--under it, no matter how romantic a first kiss that would be?

Angela had long since stopped believing in Santa Claus, but like in so many other areas of life, she sheltered Alice from the harshness of lost faith as long as she could and pretended to believe for years.

Your Fashion City is Milan


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