In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
you're doomed at being you.
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.