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* AuthorAppeal: [=McQuiston=] based the book on many of their favorite pieces of media growing up. They pretty much combined all the common tropes of RomanticComedy and MysteryFiction, subverted around half of them to Hell and back while playing the other half totally straight and then added a healthy dose of queerness to get the basic plot of ''I Kissed Shara Wheeler''.
* CreatorRecovery: [=McQuiston=] has revealed that during the process of writing ''Shara'' they were just starting to unpack their own religious trauma from their childhood and adolescence. They note that actually writing ''I Kissed Shara Wheeler'' helped them with this the most. They have also stated that there was an earlier version of ''Shara'' that they wrote twenty-five thousand words of before scrapping, because through the whole thing there were unrelenting undertones of contempt and derision aimed at both the setting and the teenage characters (the protagonist included). Reading this early draft, [=McQuiston=] realized that they needed to learn to empathize with their own teenage self to write teenage characters. This realization helped lead to a much more respectful final product that [=McQuiston=] describes as something they believe could've potentially helped them if they had picked it up as a teenager.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Casey [=McQuiston=] grew up in the religious South and attended an Evangelical Christain school. They have called ''Shara'' "the most personal thing I've ever written".
* CreatorRecovery: [=McQuiston=] has revealed that during the process of writing ''Shara'' they were just starting to unpack their own religious trauma from their childhood and adolescence. They note that actually writing ''I Kissed Shara Wheeler'' helped them with this the most. They have also stated that there was an earlier version of ''Shara'' that they wrote twenty-five thousand words of before scrapping, because through the whole thing there were unrelenting undertones of contempt and derision aimed at both the setting and the teenage characters (the protagonist included). Reading this early draft, [=McQuiston=] realized that they needed to learn to empathize with their own teenage self to write teenage characters. This realization helped lead to a much more respectful final product that [=McQuiston=] describes as something they believe could've potentially helped them if they had picked it up as a teenager.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Casey [=McQuiston=] grew up in the religious South and attended an Evangelical Christain school. They have called ''Shara'' "the most personal thing I've ever written".
