June is our month to talk about visibility on a bigger scale. I do that with the characters in Red Letters rock band, who found success along the way, but it’s not a clean walk away.Something is left unresolved, and that? That makes an arc, but it also leads to today’s questions. I doubled up because it feels like they go together better than if I asked each one alone.

What’s the cost of letting other people define your love story for you? Does fame make love harder or just make the hard parts visible?

When your relationship becomes public, whether that’s fame-level public or just your-friends-and-family-know public.. does the scrutiny create problems or just expose the ones that were already there? Because, back before social media let everyone record themselves, what happened in your home stayed in your home. Celebrities were in the spotlight and if they were popular enough, they were watched constantly and reported on for everyone they talked to. So, that’s today’s thinking. Is it because you are visible that it’s harder? Or are the hard parts reported on and made visible for you? What does it cost you to let other people into your (love) story like that?

For Woods, this type of question is everything in his story. He’s now used to the reports, the jokes, the questions over and over again. And it’s not just the stories that shape his thinking, there are others. But, the truth can’t stay hidden forever, and someday it almost hits him in the face. And when you find out the truth wasn’t what you were told? Well, in the writing world, that makes a pretty great second chance story you decide for yourself, right?