Crazy Behavior
Sometimes the smallest acts of kindness leave the deepest marks.
As Letti begins rebuilding her life, an unexpected friendship helps her rediscover parts of herself she thought she'd lost forever. One conversation at a time, one shared moment at a time, she begins to believe she's finally moving forward.
Hope has a way of changing the stories we tell ourselves. Before long, Letti finds herself questioning whether she's seeing life as it is, or as she desperately wants it to be, and whether the same moments can mean something very different to the people living them.
STATUS: In Progress
As Letti approaches forty, she's newly divorced and realizes she's spent years putting everyone else first while quietly losing sight of herself. Determined to make a change, she joins a new gym, hoping to become healthier, stronger, and maybe rediscover the woman she used to be.
What begins as a simple commitment to herself slowly transforms her life. The quiet encouragement of an unexpected friendship gives her the confidence to say yes to new experiences, meaningful volunteer work, and a life that suddenly feels full of possibility. She laughs more easily, rediscovers her sense of purpose, and, for the first time in years, Letti isn't just surviving, she's genuinely happy.
But happiness can be fragile.
When the new life she's built begins to shift, Letti finds herself fighting to hold onto the person she's become. Was her newfound confidence ever really hers? Or had she unknowingly tied it to something she was never meant to keep? Hope has a way of changing the stories we tell ourselves. Before long, Letti begins questioning whether she's seeing life as it is, or as she desperately wants it to be. As the line between hope and reality begins to blur, she must confront a question she never imagined asking herself: Can you truly lose yourself again after finally finding your way back?
The Story
Meet the Characters
Letti
Letti built a successful business helping women rebuild their confidence after life's hardest moments. She knows exactly how to encourage other people to let go, move forward, and believe in themselves again. The only person she can't seem to help is herself.
Blindsided by a divorce she never saw coming, she's surrounded by reminders that her ex-husband has already moved on while she feels trapped between the life she lost and the one she hasn't figured out how to create.
When her best friend Tiffany convinces her to join a gym, Letti thinks she's simply trying to get healthier. She has no idea she's about to rediscover a version of herself she thought was gone forever.
Drew
After overcoming addiction, Drew rebuilt his life by dedicating himself to helping other people discover strengths they didn't know they possessed. Whether he's coaching clients at the gym or volunteering with local first responders through the Fletcher Foundation, Drew believes that small acts of encouragement can change the course of someone's life.
The loss of his cousin, a police officer killed in the line of duty, gave Drew a renewed sense of purpose. Honoring his cousin's memory has become one of the driving forces in his life, supporting first responders and the families they leave behind. At home, he's equally devoted to the people he loves, quietly making sure his mother never has to face life's challenges alone.
Drew never thinks of himself as someone extraordinary. To him, kindness isn't something you perform, it's simply who you are. He has no idea that the ordinary moments he barely remembers will become some of the most important moments in someone else's life.
Tiffany
To Letti, Tiffany represents everything she fears she'll never have again.
After surviving her own divorce, Tiffany rebuilt her life, found love, and created a beautifully blended family full of children, stepchildren, laughter, and second chances. Watching Tiffany reminds Letti that happiness after heartbreak isn't just possible, it's real.
She's the friend who tells the truth with kindness, celebrates your victories as if they were her own, and quietly shows up when life becomes difficult.
While Letti searches for answers within herself, Tiffany provides something just as important: perspective. She reminds Letti who she is when she's forgotten, encourages her to take chances, and never stops believing in the woman Letti is becoming.
Inspiration For This Novel
Like my novels seem to do, Crazy Behavior began in my head with a question.
Not about love, but about identity.
What happens when life changes in ways you never expected? When your children grow up, your marriage ends, or you wake up one day and realize you've quietly lost sight of the person you used to be?
For me, that answer began with a gym.
What started as a way to fill the emptiness of becoming an empty nester slowly brought me back to life. I laughed more. I challenged myself. I met new people. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I was becoming myself again.
But it also made me wonder something I couldn't shake.
What if we sometimes mistake the source of our happiness? What happens when the thing we believe brought us back to life begins to disappear? Do we lose ourselves all over again, or was that strength inside us all along?
Those questions became Letti's story.
By the time I finished exploring those questions, I realized I wasn't writing about the thing that helped someone find themselves. I was writing about what happens when we begin to believe we can't be that person without it.
One of My Favorite Moments
People often assume my favorite scene would be one of the novel's biggest emotional moments.
It isn't.
It's the stretch of the story where Letti slowly begins coming back to life.
Nothing dramatic happens. There are workouts, volunteer projects, shared conversations, ordinary words of encouragement, and quiet moments that, on their own, don't seem particularly significant. But together, they begin changing the way Letti sees herself.
I love writing those chapters because the reader experiences the transformation almost the same way Letti does. It happens so gradually that she doesn’t fully realizes how much has changed until much later.
Watching Letti laugh more easily, take chances again, showing up for the people she loves and slowly become the woman she'd almost forgotten, reminded me that the biggest changes in our lives rarely happen all at once. They happen one ordinary moment at a time.
What I Love About This Story
What I love most about Crazy Behavior is how honest it feels.
More than any other character I've written, Letti carries pieces of the way I think and the way I experience the world. Not her circumstances, but her inner voice. Her hope. Her tendency to replay conversations, search for meaning in ordinary moments, and build entire stories from the smallest acts of kindness.
Writing Letti has challenged me because I can't hide behind the plot. I have to be honest about emotions that are often difficult to admit out loud.
I think that's what I love most about her. She reminds me that our hearts don't always behave logically, and sometimes the hardest person to understand is ourselves.
July 13, 2026
Finished writing Chapter 46.July 16, 2026
Letti surprised me today. I sat down planning one scene and ended up writing something completely different.
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