The Seattle Times have an interview with “Twilight” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. On the eve of the New Moon DVD release, she talks about romance of the werewolf and vampire kind, teenage crushes and angst, and writing other coming-of-age shows, like “Party of Five” and “The OC.”

Q: How closely did you work with Meyer?

A: With each movie, we’ve gotten closer. … On the first movie, I kept my process private. But then as I got to know her, I realized that was completely unnecessary, because she is incredibly collaborative, fluid and not precious about her work … With “New Moon,” she read all the drafts, but with “Eclipse,” I asked her to read the outline, which was very unusual. It’s very risky. It’s very early. That’s where I do a great deal of my work. … That’s when you’re structuring the story and deciding what’s in, what’s out, what’s invented, all that.

Q: How did you and Meyer see eye-to-eye?

A: It’s a funny thing actually, because you can take someone like Stephenie who is very devout in her religion [Mormonism], and take someone like me who was born in Northern California in a hot tub to a family of shrinks. … And yet we meet in the middle, we meet in story. We meet in character. So our politics just don’t come up. It doesn’t have to. I was worried about that, about writing something that I don’t believe in. Not at all. It’s about character.

Read the complete interview at the Seattle Times.