When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
People are quite frequently eccentric.
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.