What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

I love what I do. I'm so lucky.

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

I started writing stories as a child.