I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email when I'm not at home. My texts are usually like, "If I ever break up with my boyfriend I want to date a very angry rapper."

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

I think I've been able to express some of the more complicated feelings I had.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.