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" \nQ: So, how did you two become friends?  A&amp;amp;amp;J:  We met freshman year at Syracuse University, where we were both magazine majors at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Not only were we in all the same classes, but we were also co-features editors of a newspaper.  Which chapter in Friend or Frenemy? is your favorite and why?  A:  I love Chapter Six, which is all about frenemies. I&amp;#039;m really fond of the part about the Psycho friend because every girl has a friend who is just crazy as hell.  J:  I like Chapter Five, which is all about friends and frenemies in the workplace. When so many different people are forced to work closely together in torture devices known as &amp;quot;cubicles,&amp;quot; it can make for a sociological experiment. Great friendships are made, frenemies arise, and there&amp;#039;s comedy, tragedy, and lots of drama.  How do you balance writing books, working full time, friends, boyfriends, and everything else?  A:  Well, for starters it helps to have a writing partner to help you pick up the slack. You also have to prioritize, which means turning down plans on a weekend afternoon or spending your lunch hour writing. Oh, and it&amp;#039;s amazing how much you can get done on public transportation!  J:  I second what Andrea said about public transportation. You never realize how much you can write while you ride the subway to and from your full-time job! It&amp;#039;s also all about setting a schedule for your writing and sticking to it. I usually like to write immediately after work. (I&amp;#039;m so not a morning person.)  What&amp;#039;s your best advice for other young women who would like to write a book?  A&amp;amp;amp;J:  Stop talking about it and just do it. It&amp;#039;s one thing to have a great idea, but it&amp;#039;s another to take action and make it happen. Keep on writing, even if it&amp;#039;s for a few minutes everyday. It&amp;#039;s one surefire way to help fend off writer&amp;#039;s anxiety. Bring a notebook with you everywhere. Also, from a business perspective, you should also follow what&amp;#039;s going on in publishing and educate yourself on what types of books are hot right now. Landing a good agent can be tricky. We contacted the agent behind a book that was similar to our first one (The Hookup Handbook) and luckily, it was a good fit.  How was writing Friend or Frenemy? a different experience than writing The Hookup Handbook?  A&amp;amp;amp;J:  It was a bit easier because people are a little more willing to talk about their friendships than their hookups!  Have you ever &amp;quot;broken up&amp;quot; with a frenemy? How?  A:  I recently pulled a &amp;quot;slow fade&amp;quot; where I gradually limited my contact with a frenemy until the only communication we had was via IM or Facebook.  J:  I wouldn&amp;#039;t say that I&amp;#039;ve broken up with a frenemy per se, but I&amp;#039;ve had some friendships fade away because we weren&amp;#039;t the same people that we used to be and we didn&amp;#039;t have much in common anymore. I think it&amp;#039;s only natural that we change over time, but it doesn&amp;#039;t make the deterioration of a relationship any less painful. Part of us still mourns the loss of that person from our lives. It also doesn&amp;#039;t make it any less painful when a friendship ends with a whimper instead of a bang.  What&amp;#039;s your favorite make-new-friends tip for the Cosmo girl?  A&amp;amp;amp;J:  Do something \u2014 anything that interests you. Learn a foreign language, volunteer, play a sport on a community league. When you do things that you like (or even something that you aren&amp;#039;t sure that you will like, but always wanted to try), chances are that you will meet at least one cool person who shares your interests. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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