What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.
Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.
How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!
You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.