If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.