For three years, she would write only intermittently, trying to take it easy and let the pressure of being a best-selling author "fade out." She found herself happier, and only lacking in her social life. Her publisher stopped asking her out for coffee after hearing she wasn't writing anymore.
為自己而活後來她覺得寫作也沒有多大意義，中間有三年，寫作有一搭、沒一搭，試試看全部「放空」，逐漸「淡出」暢銷作家應有的勤奮和節奏，日子更開心了，唯一的不足是沒有社交生活，出版社的編輯聽說她不寫書，也懶得打電話來約她喝咖啡。